All That We Touch
Exploring the entangled relationships between technology, society, nature and politics. All that we touch, we change, and all that we change changes us.
Episodes
Live panel: Wikimedia Australia and Dr Terri Janke's guide to working with First Nations content responsibly
How can Wikipedia editors work with Indigenous content in a responsible way?Hear a panel discussion with Indigenous lawyers Dr Terri Janke, Shavonne Wright, and Matilda Langford on the new Wikimedia Australia guide to respectful, accurate engagement with Indigenous knowledge.Oral knowledge can't be referenced under Wikipedia's own rules, and that hits Indigenous knowledge hardest. Most Australian
Research and teach with Wikipedia: In the classroom and library
Every student uses Wikipedia. Some schools and teachers still tell them not to.This episode asks why, and explains how to teach Wikipedia literacy to primary and secondary school students, instead of banning it outright.Researchers Heather Ford and Simon Knight answer questions and hear advice from teachers Ben Lawless, Marty Douglas and David Boon, and librarian Michelle Sadler.Hear what good, cr
Play along: The Wikipedia quiz
Five questions. Two hosts. One deceptively simple quiz. Can Wikipedia articles really be edited by anyone? Does the site rely on your $5 donations, or is there more to the story?Host Heather Ford goes head-to-head with guest Simon Knight in a true-or-false showdown about Wikipedia. Almost nothing is as straightforward as it sounds.This is All That We Touch: Wikipedia, a documentary podcast series
The 'Last Best Place on the Internet': Will Wikipedia survive AI?
In the future, will Wikipedia still be written by humans?This episode asks what happens to that promise as two very different futures close in.Co-host and author Richard Cooke calls Wikipedia ‘the last best place on the internet’ - one of the only things still standing from the early web's promise of a civic, collaborative internet.This episode traces two futures already taking shape. The first is
Wikipedia's three big fights: What knowledge counts?
Wikipedia promised to be the sum of all human knowledge. Then the fighting started.Host Heather Ford and writer Richard Cooke walk through three of Wikipedia's biggest fight. Not the daily edit wars over the spelling of yoghurt, but the fights over what Wikipedia is, and whose knowledge gets to be part of it.There are more than 300 language versions of Wikipedia. So why does everyone treat the Eng
Australia and Wikipedia: The bias in the map
Wikipedia doesn't set out to play favourites. But when a made-up Melbourne suburb has more history than real Australian places, something is shaping what gets written.Who - or what - decides which Australian places matter on Wikipedia?Hosts Heather Ford and Francesca Sidoti go looking, through a map of 35,000 places, a street corner in Penrith, and a fight over one island's name.How is Wikipedia b
Introducing... All That We Touch: Wikipedia
It started as a joke. An encyclopedia anyone could edit? Now it’s one of the ten most visited websites in the world.Even when you think you're not using it, you probably are. It's feeding your search results, your voice assistant, your AI chatbot.But if Wikipedia shapes how we understand the world, what shapes Wikipedia?Host Heather Ford, researcher Francesca Sidoti, and author Richard Cooke inves
Introducing... All That We Touch: Investigating the relationship between technology and society
Are we really separate from the things we make? Do we really control our own tools? And where do we end, and they begin?All That We Touch explores the relationship between technology and society, and how the things we make shape and reshape us in turn.Host Matt Ryan speaks with Tamson Pietsch about the podcast's central questions and its sources of inspiration.In a changing climate, the powerful W
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