Watts On Your Screen

Matt Watts
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A podcast all about the entirely disparate experiences we have on the internet. Matt Watts interviews a series of guests about their internet diet, how they use the web, and how it uses them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. Meta Glasses: All Content, No Consent

    6 DAYS AGO

    Meta Glasses: All Content, No Consent

    The stories of two women in Nottingham who discovered videos of themselves on Tik Tok which had been secretly recorded using Meta smart glasses and uploaded without their knowledge or consent. I also explore the motives, attitude, and Discord server of "Carlos", the man behind the glasses. That's him in the cover art. 👱‍♂️ MORE ABOUT MATT You can follow me on Instagram: @mattwattsmakesdocs Here's my website: https://www.mattwattsmakesdocs.co.uk/ Here's my newsletter: https://themattazine.beehiiv.com/ 💌 WHAT'S ON YOUR SCREEN? Please send voice notes and messages about your unexpected online experiences to: wattsonyourscreen@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    31 min
  2. Sunsets & Grids

    18/12/2025

    Sunsets & Grids

    An investigation into ubiquitous stock imagery used to depict cyberspace, technology and the 1980s. I examine the pop culture of the 80s, the influence of technology, certain cities, and synthwave. 🔗LINKS: 📰 Useful articles on the subject:  https://www.psd-dude.com/tutorials/resources/80s-font.aspx https://medium.com/@cywjoel/outrun-the-aesthetic-deconstructed-dbd3cd8679b7 https://wearethemutants.com/2017/02/16/vanishing-point-how-the-light-grid-defined-1980s-futurism/ https://indieground.net/blog/80s-grid-history/ 📕 Michel Tcherevkoff's book: https://archive.org/details/tcherevkoffimage0000tche/page/n151/mode/2up 🎥The Rise of the Synths documentary website: https://theriseofthesynths.com/  🎥My documentary, Follow the Stickers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_6Q4uOLIY4  📼The 77-Year-Old Giga-Chad Boomer who loves GIFs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9SO7cZU_nM  👱‍♂️ MORE ABOUT MATT You can follow me on Instagram: @mattwattsmakesdocs Here's my website: https://www.mattwattsmakesdocs.co.uk/ Here's my newsletter: https://themattazine.beehiiv.com/ 💌 WHAT'S ON YOUR SCREEN? Please send voice notes and messages about your unexpected online experiences to: wattsonyourscreen@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    28 min
  3. Unseen & Appropriated

    18/11/2025

    Unseen & Appropriated

    A summary of the month of January 2025 told via unseen snippets of mundane video in an audio collage that I narrate. Yeah, it's an odd one, but give it a chance.  🔗LINKS: My Roosevelt documentary: https://youtu.be/uxyP0ue681A 👱‍♂️ MORE ABOUT MATT You can follow me on Instagram: @mattwattsmakesdocs Here's my website: https://www.mattwattsmakesdocs.co.uk/ Here's my newsletter: https://themattazine.beehiiv.com/ 💌 WHAT'S ON YOUR SCREEN? Please send voice notes and messages about your unexpected online experiences to: wattsonyourscreen@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    28 min
  4. How to Actually Reduce Online Harms

    17/10/2025

    How to Actually Reduce Online Harms

    Professor Andy Phippen talks about about his 20 years of experience in the world of online harms. We talk about the effectiveness of prohibition, the online safety act, harm reduction, and what young people actually say about their internet usage when you take the time to ask them.  🔗LINKS: The news story about the grooming victim in Wiltshire who was told by the police that he had done something illegal: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjrdz0qegg3o) Andy's book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-80286-7 My newsletter: https://themattazine.beehiiv.com/ Substack’s nazi problem: https://www.platformer.news/substack-nazi-push-notification/ 👱‍♂️ MORE ABOUT MATT You can follow me on Instagram: @mattwattsmakesdocs Here's my website: https://www.mattwattsmakesdocs.co.uk/ Here's my newsletter: https://themattazine.beehiiv.com/ 💌 WHAT'S ON YOUR SCREEN? Please send voice notes and messages about your unexpected online experiences to: wattsonyourscreen@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    48 min
  5. Demolishing local journalism? Clickbait, school skirts, and parish councils.

    18/09/2025

    Demolishing local journalism? Clickbait, school skirts, and parish councils.

    I talk to local journalist Corey Bedford about the various pressures and business interests that are shaping the world of online local journalism.  🔗LINKS: Corey's conversation with Hold the Front Page after he took voluntary redundancy from the Leicester Mercury: https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2023/news/cuts-threatened-journalist-quits-for-sake-of-mental-health/  The Mirror's article 'Girl, 12, put in school isolation because her 'hips are too wide for a pleated skirt' https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/girl-12-put-school-isolation-24912521The Grimsby Live article 'Parish Council meeting gets heated as residents question councillors over hedge drama': https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/parish-council-meeting-gets-heated-3159518The Rest is Entertainment episode 'The Secrets of Tipping Point': https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-secrets-of-tipping-point/id1718287198?i=1000726929576Nottinghamshire Live's drone footage of the cooling towers being demolished: https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/gallery/amazing-drone-footage-shows-nottinghamshire-10426683 The ongoing saga between Nottinghamshire Live and Reform UK: https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-opinion/reform-voted-against-debate-nottinghamshire-10511120 The National Union of Journalists' statement on the situation: https://www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj-responds-to-reform-refusing-to-speak-to-local-journalists-in-nottinghamshire.html 🔉SFX ATTRIBUTIONS  Motorway and Rain - 1.wav by SpaceJoe -- https://freesound.org/s/486613/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 explosion 5.wav by Logicogonist -- https://freesound.org/s/685417/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 👱‍♂️ MORE ABOUT MATT You can follow me on Instagram: @mattwattsmakesdocs Here's my website: https://www.mattwattsmakesdocs.co.uk/ Here's my newsletter: https://themattazine.beehiiv.com/ 💌 WHAT'S ON YOUR SCREEN? Please send voice notes and messages about your unexpected online experiences to: wattsonyourscreen@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    42 min
  6. Happy Meal Karen's True Identity

    20/08/2025

    Happy Meal Karen's True Identity

    I investigate the origin of infuriating videos of people being thoroughly unreasonable. Where do they come from? Why are they made? Are they real? Who's behind them? 🔗LINKS: 📰 Reuters article: https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/british-police-officer-questioning-driver-clip-is-skit-2023-11-23/ 📺 The video mentioned in the Reuters article: https://x.com/stillgray/status/1720075180830228516 🎵 Hamad's Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thehalalham 📰 A Rolling Stone article about Karen videos and the Norwegian royal family: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/fake-karen-viral-videos-tiktok-instagram-1234814549/   📺 Louisa's video about the original video: https://www.tiktok.com/@mymatecherry/video/7342608253005729056  📺 An example of the kind of exposure the McDonalds video got: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrSNX-qRAaM 👱‍♂️ MORE ABOUT MATT You can follow me on Instagram: @mattwattsmakesdocs Here's my website: https://www.mattwattsmakesdocs.co.uk/ Here's my newsletter: https://themattazine.beehiiv.com/ 💌 WHAT'S ON YOUR SCREEN? Please send voice notes and messages about your unexpected online experiences to: wattsonyourscreen@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    30 min
  7. The Final Boss of Ad Data

    18/07/2025

    The Final Boss of Ad Data

    I talk to the anthropomorphised embodiment of all my online ad data in a horrifying fever dream.  🔗LINKS: How to download your info on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/212802592074644/ How to download your info on Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/181231772500920 How to download your info on eBay: https://community.ebay.com/t5/Ask-a-Mentor/How-can-I-download-like-an-excel-or-cvs-file-of-my-purchase/td-p/33445982 How to download your info on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=TP1zlemejtTn6pwYKS How to download your data on Hinge: https://help.hinge.co/hc/en-us/articles/360011235813-How-do-I-request-a-copy-of-my-personal-data How to download your data on Tinder: https://www.help.tinder.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005626726-How-do-I-request-a-copy-of-my-personal-data How to download your data on Bumble: https://bumble.com/en-us/help/how-can-i-request-my-data-or-retrieve-past-conversations How to download your data on Spotify: https://support.spotify.com/uk/article/data-rights-and-privacy-settings/ There are probably many more places you can request your data from but I think these cover some of the most interesting / intrusive areas of our online lives: socialising, dating, shopping, and listening.  🎞 Here's a link to Luke's film review insta: https://www.instagram.com/watchwithluke/  📻 Here's my interview on Creators by TrueFans: https://pod.fo/e/2fbc96  My show page on TrueFans: https://truefans.fm/watts-on-your-screen © COPYRIGHT ATTRIBUTIONS: lounge-jazz-elevator-music-324902 is by Ievgen Poltavskyi: https://pixabay.com/music/traditional-jazz-lounge-jazz-elevator-music-324902/ 👱‍♂️ MORE ABOUT MATT You can follow me on Instagram: @mattwattsmakesdocs Here's my website: https://www.mattwattsmakesdocs.co.uk/ Here's my newsletter: https://themattazine.beehiiv.com/ 💌 WHAT'S ON YOUR SCREEN? Please send voice notes and messages about your unexpected online experiences to: wattsonyourscreen@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    30 min
  8. Dad, I'm a Wikipedian

    18/06/2025

    Dad, I'm a Wikipedian

    I talk to 'whiz kid editor' Andrew, an administrator and bureaucrat on Wikipedia. We talk about how he got started on the site, the effects it's had on him, and how tens of thousands of wikipedians work tirelessly to maintain the internet's largest free repository of information.  🔗LINKS: The BBC article on US House of Representatives IP address getting blocked: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28481876 © COPYRIGHT ATTRIBUTIONS: water-splash-bubble-01.wav by junggle -- https://freesound.org/s/274016/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 👱‍♂️ MORE ABOUT MATT You can follow me on Instagram: @mattwattsmakesdocs Here's my website: https://www.mattwattsmakesdocs.co.uk/ Here's my newsletter: https://themattazine.beehiiv.com/ 💌 WHAT'S ON YOUR SCREEN? Please send voice notes and messages about your unexpected online experiences to: wattsonyourscreen@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    41 min
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A podcast all about the entirely disparate experiences we have on the internet. Matt Watts interviews a series of guests about their internet diet, how they use the web, and how it uses them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Matt Watts
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    18
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Matt Watts
  • Show Website
    Watts On Your Screen