{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://embed.acast.com","title":"Waypoints 30: Teens and Memes","description":"<p>This week, Rob, Danielle, and Patrick welcome Motherboard's Jason Koebler discuss the strange and somewhat hard-to-credit tale of a young teenage boy who was lured into the alt-right via online communities, and how his mother helped him escape. It touches on the nature of online radicalization, the way young white kids can recast themselves as a persecuted class, and how that process can be stopped. Then, Danielle explains the wonder that is the Jason X plot, and Rob has read an essay on how the most common tools for teaching and learning may also be some of the worst.</p><br><p>Discussed: <a href=\"https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/05/05/what-happened-after-my-13-year-old-son-joined-the-alt-right/\" target=\"_blank\">What Happened After My 13 Year Old Son Joined the Alt-Right</a>, Jason X, <a href=\"https://andymatuschak.org/books/?ref=webdesignernews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Why Books Don't Work</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>","summary":"<p>This week, Rob, Danielle, and Patrick welcome Motherboard's Jason Koebler discuss the strange and somewhat hard-to-credit tale of a young teenage boy who was lured into the alt-right via online communities, and how his mother helped him escape. It touches on the nature of online radicalization, the way young white kids can recast themselves as a persecuted class, and how that process can be stopped. Then, Danielle explains the wonder that is the Jason X plot, and Rob has read an essay on how the most common tools for teaching and learning may also be some of the worst.</p><br><p>Discussed: <a href=\"https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/05/05/what-happened-after-my-13-year-old-son-joined-the-alt-right/\" target=\"_blank\">What Happened After My 13 Year Old Son Joined the Alt-Right</a>, Jason X, <a href=\"https://andymatuschak.org/books/?ref=webdesignernews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Why Books Don't Work</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>","width":600,"height":180,"thumbnail_url":"https://thumborcdn.acast.com/zo0j-5bX9OA-ksweJm6DgR5k7i8=/350x350/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.pippa.io%2Fshows%2F61b7a3fe169562ea7ce952d6%2F61b7a43ec0242e0013704c21.jpg","thumbnail_width":350,"thumbnail_height":350,"url":"https://embed.acast.com/vicegamingsnewpodcast/waypoints30-soyoursonisturningintoanonlinenazi","html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/vicegamingsnewpodcast/waypoints30-soyoursonisturningintoanonlinenazi\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180px\" scrolling=\"no\" frameBorder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;\"></iframe>","amp":"<amp-iframe width=\"600\" height=\"180\" layout=\"responsive\" title=\"Waypoints 30: Teens and Memes\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://embed.acast.com/vicegamingsnewpodcast/waypoints30-soyoursonisturningintoanonlinenazi\"></amp-iframe>"}