Category: Press

This page includes my appearances in print and broadcast media.

New article in Monocle Magazine’s anniversary issue

Josh Cowls

While social media’s incredible growth has fostered extraordinary new possibilities for human connection and creativity, it has also enabled – and at times even incentivised – a 21st century resurgence of extremism, disinformation, surveillance, and many other ills.

For the 15th anniversary issue of Monocle, I was commissioned to write a piece about the many changes to social media, and society, since 2007. The piece is now available in print and online.

Skeptechs wins Spotify’s Next Wave award

Josh Cowls

Skeptechs, the podcast I host with Nayana Prakash, has been selected as one of the winners of Spotify’s Next Wave award from thousands of submissions. The competition set out to identify up-and-coming student podcasters, and the winners are currently featured atop Spotify’s student genre page. It’s great to have been recognised in this way and we’re looking forward to recording and releasing more episodes in the weeks to come.

Introducing OxPod

Josh Cowls

I’m excited to announce OxPod, a new “conversational collective” of podcasts based here in Oxford. OxPod includes Nayana and my tech news podcast SkepTechs (formerly AlgoRhythms) as well as a number of other podcasts offering sharp insights about the big issues facing society.

OxPod can be found at www.oxpod.net, where you can also find a brand new page for SkepTechs which will host our episodes going forward.

Launching AlgoRhythms, a new podcast

Josh Cowls

Algorhythms logoI’ve launched a podcast! Co-presented with fellow Oxford Internet Institute PhD student Nayana Prakash, AlgoRhythms is a weekly show covering tech news and research, broadcast on Oxford University’s student radio station Oxide and released as a podcast. Each week, we cover the latest stories in technology and interview fellow researchers about their work.

You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Overcast, and follow us on Twitter @OxAlgoRhythms.