Technology is messing with our emotions: Chips with Everything podcast
by Presented by Jordan Erica Webber and produced by D from on (#4FFB2)
Jordan Erica Webber chats to the authors of a new book which looks into why human emotions have changed so drastically in the last couple of centuries
Susan Matt is a professor of history at Weber State University in Utah. She recently collaborated with Luke Fernandez, an assistant professor in the school of computing there, to write a book called Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings About Technology, from the Telegraph to Twitter.
Jordan Erica Webber chats to them about how our emotions have changed alongside technological advances, from the invention of the telegraph and the ability to write letters to the emergence of the camera and the creation of social media.
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