All That We Touch
Every piece of technology we use is also using us. All That We Touch looks at familiar tools, systems, and habits and asks, how do they shape us? Hear deeply reported narrative series, interviews, and live recordings on the entangled relationships between technology, society, nature and politics, like: - Wikipedia: A six-part investigation about what shapes the world's biggest encyclopedia, and how to use it better. - Liquid Gold: What happens after we flush? Tracing human waste from taboo to treasure. - NewGenics: The new frontier of embryo testing. What happens when the hope for a healthy child becomes the...
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 exploring what shapes the world's most-read encyclopaedia, and how to use it better.
Every question in this episode comes the Wikimedia Foundation's 2025 Global Readers Survey, testing how well people...
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 āthe last best place on the internetā - 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 AI.
It might surprise you how long Wikipedia has used AI successfully. And unsuccessfully...
Like in the strange true story of a Wi...
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 English one as the real one?
A game played by millions of people can't get a Wikipedia page.
And two warring camps of...
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 biased, and why? The answer will surprise you.
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Heather Ford is an ARC Future Fellow and Professor in the School of Communication...
Introducing... All That We Touch: Wikipedia
It started as a joke. An encyclopedia anyone could edit? Now itās 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 investigate the site and all that it touches.
Episode 1 asks, what does Australia look like on Wikipedia? The answer takes you from a fictional so...
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 Western notion that humans are separate from nature, enjoying dominion over it, is coming undone. Meanwhile, digital life has us doubting whether we...
