dot com: The Hacking

By: Crowd Network
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  • Is the post-Cold War era over? In this brave new world, nothing is too small, or big, to be digitalised…including acts of war. Russian ransomware attacks almost doubled last year. At this very moment, cybercriminals are crippling schools, supermarkets, dentists, kindergartens, hospitals, oil pipelines - all in the name of money. Katie Puckrik wants to know who, and why. You can listen to the previous series of dot com on this same feed. Series 1 unveils the hidden army of volunteers behind the world's biggest encyclopaedia; and series 2 explores the heat behind the headlines of the US's 5th biggest social media website, Reddit. Dot com is presented by Katie Puckrik, written and produced by Anna Staufenberg, and edited by Crawford Blair.
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Episodes
  • The Wikipedia Story | Ep 1 | Don't Bite The Newbies

    The Wikipedia Story | Ep 1 | Don't Bite The Newbies
    Oct 19 2021
    This is where it starts. The gateway to the hidden universe of Wikipedia. Behind that laptop screen there's a teaming anthill of Wiki people; writing, writing, writing, to bring free knowledge to the world. But who are they, what do they sound like, and what do they do? They're oddbods, lovers, leaders, loners. And nobody has any idea who they are. Until now. The clips used in this episode are from Wikimedia Commons and are published under the Creative Commons license. No changes were made. WikimedianOfTheYearAnnouncement (cc-by-sa-4.0, author: Wikimedia Foundation); Felix Nartey voice (en) (cc-by-sa-4.0, author: Andy Mabbett); Voix de Benoît Prieur (cc-by-sa-4.0, author: Benoît Prieur); Vera de Kok - voice - nl (cc-by-CC0-1.0, author: Vera de Kok); Tomasz Ganicz (cc-by-4.0, author: Borys Kozielski). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    49 mins
  • The Wikipedia Story | Ep 2 | Hello World

    The Wikipedia Story | Ep 2 | Hello World
    Oct 26 2021
    It's the 15th January 2001 and a new website has just been launched. A free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Crazy idea, right? Maybe. But twenty years on, Wikipedia is in over 320 different languages and is growing by thousands of articles every day. How did we get from there, town Wikipedia in 2001, to here, metropolis Wikipedia 2021? For the second episode of dot com, Katie Puckrik's going back to the start to find out how and why Wikipedia was founded. And it turns out if you scratch the surface, the answer isn't as simple as it seems. The clips used in this episode are from Wikimedia Commons and are published under the Creatives Commons license. No changes were made. Happy birthday, Wikipedia! (cc-by-sa-3.0, author: Wikimedia Foundation); Wikibirthday in Tehran (cc-by-sa-4.0, author: Iranian Wikimedians User Group); Katherine Maher's Message on the Occasion of Wikipedia 20 (cc-by-CC0-1, author: Wikimedia Foundation); WalesCallToAction (cc-by-sa-3.0, author: Wikimedia Foundation); Wikipedia 15 - Jimmy's greetings (cc-by-sa-3.0, author: Jimmy Wales). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    45 mins
  • The Wikipedia Story | Ep 3 | Moving The Needle

    The Wikipedia Story | Ep 3 | Moving The Needle
    Nov 2 2021
    Have you noticed anything about most of the Wikipedians we've met so far? One little thing they all have in common? Katie has. We've only heard two women. Two women and eight men. That's not great, but it's normal. There are deep, systemic problems with Wikipedia: 90% of editors are male, and they're overwhelmingly white. Only 5.5% of all articles on Wikipedia are to do with the entire continent of Africa. So Katie's asking, why? What does this mean for the 'sum total of all human knowledge'? And can anything be done? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    48 mins

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