1. What Can Ranveer Singh, A Viral Instagram Trend, George Orwell, and Aldous Huxley Teach Us?

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1. What Can Ranveer Singh, A Viral Instagram Trend, George Orwell, and Aldous Huxley Teach Us?

A for Appropriation, Allyship, Authenticity, Algorithm, Anonymous, Anxiety and Authoritarian in the first episode of Media Buddhi A-Z.

H R Venkatesh

Archis Chowdhury

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Divya Chandra

Jun 23, 2022

Can understanding these seven words help us make better conversation, or failing that, make us understand the tricky subjects that they relate to? In this, our first episode of Media Buddhi A-Z, we bring you some riveting examples and some (hopefully intelligent) speculation.

Here are some questions asked and answered:

Is the viral kachcha badam trend on Instagram a case of appropriation? What, then, of Ranveer Singh in Gully Boy?
Are we living in the world of George Orwell’s 1984 or Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World?
How can we distinguish between echo chambers and filter bubbles?
How can we use the framework of A NICE to help us deal with WhatsApp forwards?

And more.

Next episode: Words starting with the letter ‘B’.

Discussion about this podcast

Media Buddhi

A podcast that gives us tools to navigate tricky, polarising questions with our friends, family and community. Each week, Venkatesh, Divya and Archis tackle words from a single letter (such as A for appropriation, allyship, algorithm, anxiety, etc.).

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