If everyone’s infected by bias, what’s the antidote?
The first episode is about stereotyping and biases that suck us in.
I just launched my new podcast, Wide Angle. The first episode is about bias and what it means to live in a world bubbling with stereotyping and biases.
One of my guests, Rik Panganiban had an interesting take, however. He suggested that not all biases are bad. We just need to work through our own. Rik is part of KQED, in San Francisco. He shifts the focus to the urgent need for us (as educators, and even parents) to emphasize media literacy among young people. We need to help them recognize that certain choices are always being made when a video, or article is created, and teach them question the creator’s intent.
I also brought in a second guest, Spencer Luke who tells us why ‘click restraint’ is so important as we hurtle into zones of instant gratification that feeds our egos and teases our biases.
Wide Angle replaces my earlier podcast, Radio 201. It comes out of the computer lab at Benjamin Franklin High School.
