The Armchair Sociologist
Episodes
07 Social Media - The Robots are Racist Now (Part 3 of 3)
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the thrilling conclusion of our Social Media series, we talk censorship, discrimination, and the father of American sociology, W.E.B. DuBois. Throu...
Social Media - The Misinformation Machine (Part 2 of 3)
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can misinformation kill you? Yes. And it has! We discuss moderation, censorship, free speech and how badly Elon Musk destroyed Twitter. Katie becomes ...
Social Media - Oops! All Ads (Part 1 of 3)
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Rayne takes us on an enchanted journey through the world of social media. It's mostly ads now! We'll talk advertising, algorithms, power st...
Artificial Intelligence - Daisy Bell is Hallucinating (Part 3 of 3)
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hey, wait. It's starting to seem like you guys have an anti-AI bias. What do you MEAN you expect to be paid for your services? You don't want your voi...
Artificial Intelligence - Are Big Tech the Baddies? (Part 2 of 3)
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So what's so bad about generative AI? What are some of the real world implications of this technology? Who does it harm? How does it harm them? Will Z...
Artificial Intelligence (Part 1 of 3) - I Have A Mouth and I Will Scream
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're ruining generative AI for everyone. We discuss the ethics of AI data scraping and impacts it has on artists of all stripes. Excited f...
Why are you doing this?
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Armchair Sociologist, a sociologist podcast for non-sociologists. This week, we discuss why sociology needs communicators, why this pod...
TRAILER - The Armchair Sociologist
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Armchair sociologist is the hip new sociology podcast on the block. Everybody's talking about it - my dad, my capstone advisor, and even me. If yo...