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All That We Touch

Impact Studios 2 Episodes Jul 21, 2026

Exploring the entangled relationships between technology, society, nature and politics. All that we touch, we change, and all that we change changes us.

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Wikipedia's three big fights: what knowledge counts? Jul 21, 2026 28:38 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 Jul 14, 2026 36:25 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... Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 02:13 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

0. Introducing All That We Touch - investigating the relationship between technology and society Jun 30, 2026 05:54 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

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