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Preview: Deep Impact: Podcasts Inspiring Action/Change IRL

Podcasts are on the rise as more people choose to delve beyond flashy headlines. Four professional journalists who report news will host a panel that will focus on what it means to tell investigative stories in a podcast format and how it’s similar and different from telling those stories in a more traditional medium. With […]

Preview: Conversations About America's Future

For two days, SXSW will be overrun by 2020 hopefuls and other prominent politicians at the ACL Theater. Partnered with the Texas Tribune, this late-addition to the schedule puts a huge focus on what America’s future holds. All in all, six 2020 prospective Democratic nominees, and one announced Republican candidate, will be speaking on Saturday […]

Shahbaz Khan is the Senior Manager of Digital Content for the Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx. He has worked for the National Basketball Association for five years where he has learned all you can know about managing social content for a professional sports team. As the discussion about social media begins to expand on many levels, […]

Rob Lowe of Balmorhea

Our panel is hopefully like trying to start a conversation about what it would look like to create a community in which the barrier to entry, to the creative use of this technology, isn’t so exclusive just to people who have really large audiences or access to a lot of money and I think that’s just a matter of time but also a matter of conversation and talking about what ways can labels and other media outlets partner with artists to to create new art, new work, new material, new things for people, new experiences for people. – Rob Lowe

In 1983, Tim Berners-Lee made public the World Wide Web, believing that something so great should be shared and made accessible for all. That ideology has spilled into other areas of digital and tech industry, be it in the design of new and innovative forms of communication or in studying how tech evolution has changed […]

“Technology is a part of life, and a part of being human. We’ve been making tools since we evolved into who we are today, and by ignoring technology, you risk ignoring a fundamental aspect of humanity.” Read as I speak with author Eliot Peper about the influence science fiction has had on society.