Cultural Anthropologist
Dr. Karen Ho is an anthropologist focusing on the social implications of corporate practices and the cultural dynamics of power and privilege in contemporary society.
We handed people around the world a microphone in 2007 — and for a moment it felt like the most democratic thing that had ever happened to information. Jaron Lanier, Eli Pariser, and Clay Shirky debate whether social media delivered on the promise of a democratized public square or quietly built something more like a funhouse mirror.
