Big tech v democracy: Chips with Everything podcast

Is the brave new digital world affecting our politics? Could it render democracy obsolete? Jamie Bartlett joins Jordan Erica Webber to discuss

There are plenty of ways to consider the power the Silicon Valley giants have: their financial power, the compulsive hold they have on consumers, the sheer volume of users and the data that comes along with them. One area in which this power has come under particular scrutiny recently is in the influence big tech has on elections worldwide.

To discuss the growth in tribalism and explain the age of "Tinder politics", Jordan Erica Webber speaks to author and tech blogger Jamie Bartlett, whose book The People Vs Tech explores the "bitter conflict" between technology and democracy. They address how the internet has turbo-charged human behaviour to expect instant gratification in areas where it does not belong and how, as a result, citizens, as much as governments, need to change the way they interact with data.