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Everyone Watched the Same Event and Saw Something Different – Alison Sher

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March 18, 2026

David Beckemeyer

activism, BLM, bridge building, critical thinking, culture war, echo chambers, ideology, journalism standards, media bias, media literacy, misinformation, moral psychology, outrage culture, political identity, political polarization, selective storytelling, social contagion, Special Focus / Current Events, tribalism, two-party system

Author and researcher Allison Sher spent years studying how outrage moves through media systems — and what it does to the people inside them. Her conclusion: the division we experience isn’t just a political problem. It’s a contagion, and most of us don’t realize we’ve been exposed. In this conversation, David and Allison explore the…
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Outrage 83 – Can Dinner Fix a Divided Society? – Tim Jones

Episodes

March 4, 2026

David Beckemeyer

belonging, bridge building, Bridge-Building, civic life, community building, depolarization, dialogue, human connection, loneliness, outrage culture, polarization, psychology, social cohesion, social media, social trust, ways to connect

Aired Mar 4, 2026 Political polarization, social division, and declining trust are often blamed on media, algorithms, and social networks. But what if the problem is simpler, (but also more difficult), than that? What if we’ve forgotten how to sit down with people who aren’t like us? In this episode of Outrage Overload, we talk…
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Okay Boomer – Talking Across Generations in the Age of Digital Overwhelm – Craig Mattson

Episodes, Okay Boomer

November 19, 2025

David Beckemeyer

attention economy, boomers, bridge building, communication styles, digital media, digital overwhelm, empathy, Gen Z, Generation X, generational communication, intergenerational dialogue, loneliness, meaning and purpose, millennials, outrage overload, social media, storytelling, technology and culture, workplace culture

Aired Nov 19, 2025 Every generation today is trying to make sense of a world that never stops pinging.Too many messages, too many opinions, too many notifications — and somehow, too little connection. In this Okay Boomer episode, we sit down with communication scholar Craig Mattson to talk about what he calls digital overwhelm —…
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Everyone Watched the Same Event and Saw Something Different – Alison Sher

Outrage 83 – Can Dinner Fix a Divided Society? – Tim Jones

Okay Boomer – Talking Across Generations in the Age of Digital Overwhelm – Craig Mattson

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