Technology, Media & Democracy: John Micklethwait, Jessica Rosenworcel & Clay Shirky

Published: May 16, 2018, 2:05 a.m.

This episode features a discussion at Machines+Media, NYC Media Lab’s conference on how applications of data science are changing media, hosted at Bloomberg on May 15th, 2018. During the day’s opening session, Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait led a discussion with Federal Communications Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel and Clay Shirky, Vice Provost for Educational Technologies at New York University, about the intersection between technology, media and democracy. The issue touched on topics ranging from net neutrality and the concentration of media ownership to misinformation and privacy.