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Watts On Your Screen

Watts On Your Screen

Written by: 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.

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Matt Watts
Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Sunsets & Grids
    Dec 18 2025

    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/


    💌 WHAT'S ON YOUR SCREEN?

    Please send voice notes and messages about your unexpected online experiences to: wattsonyourscreen@gmail.com

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    28 mins
  • Unseen & Appropriated
    Nov 18 2025

    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/


    💌 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.

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    28 mins
  • How to Actually Reduce Online Harms
    Oct 17 2025

    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/


    💌 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.

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    48 mins
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