TABLE OF BELONGING
Belonging table from Facebuddha (PDF) (Click to view)
AUDIO AND VIDEO INTERVIEWS
Consciously Curated Digital Self-Mastery With Dr. Ravi Chandra MD & Jordan Reid. “Taking time away from our digital devices and engaging in the present moment is becoming more difficult with each new social media app. Each bell and ding is designed to hook us and keep us engaged. When we are conscious and thoughtful about our screen time, we put ourselves back in control of our human experience.” Airdate July 13, 2022 ( repeat of October 17, 2018 interview)
10 minutes with Mike Farwell of 570 News in Ontario, Canada, beginning at minute 20:55. Taped and broadcast October 2, 2020. Regarding a Facebook group initially started for community safety awareness but then propagating violent messages against the homeless and substance-abusers. Followed by further conversation about the Facebook group.
5 minutes with Robert Handa of NBC Asian Pacific America, broadcast January 20, 2019. About Asian Americans and social media as a “Subtle Asian Trait.”
Our Smartphones, Our Selves: How to Be a Happy Human in the Digital Era. Lisa Cypers Kamen and I had a great conversation touching on dealing with the downsides of our highly connected world: the cataclysmic barrage of trauma, and all the ways we can become isolated, feel dissatisfied and disconnected online. Social media is not all bad, but we do have to make conscious adaptations to this new online environment, the largest country on Earth if gathered together. (October 17, 2018)
Mimi Chan’s Culture Chat podcast was one of my favorite conversations – because Mimi actually READ my whole entire book!!! This hour-long conversation will take you right into the heart of my experience as an Asian American Buddhist psychiatrist interested in relatedness and the Asian American experience. (August 9, 2018)
Think Opposite with Alison Donaghey on iHeart Radio (and iTunes)
How Social Media Falls Short
A wide-ranging conversation with focus on empathy, feminism and mens rights activists
Recorded July 25, 2018
KPFA 94.1 FM
Talk it Out Radio
with host Marlena Willis
June 3, 2018
Facebuddha: Bringing Mindfulness, Compassion and Relationship to our world and our use of social media
The Dr. Stem Show on America Out Loud
May 14, 2018
Is Social Media Bad For Your Mental Health?
Connect the Dots
with Alison Rose Levy
Progressive Radio Network
May 16, 2018
Is Facebook a Stressor?
A wide ranging discussion on media issues
The Pacific Heart podcast on Soundcloud, Stitcher, and iTunes.
Episodes most relevant to social media:
Ep. 1: Kim Chinh, sexual assault and #MeToo
Ep. 2: SFSU mental health and technology panel discussion
Ep. 3: Facebuddha: Psychiatrists Ravi Chandra and F.B. Steele in conversation
Ep. 4: Facebuddha: Ravi Chandra and Bernice Yeung at Booksmith
Ep. 9: Eastwind Books: Ravi Chandra and Najee Amaranth
Ep. 10: Narcissism, the American Psyche and Social Media (SSF Library)
8Asians interview with John Lin
October 29, 2017
Facebuddha Book Launch conversation with F.B. Steele, M.D., former Executive Director of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.
October 23, 2017.
October 31, 2017
Martin Luther + Facebook = Facebuddha
On the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing his theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church, I “nailed” my book to the Facebook sign in Menlo Park. Full text of the event available here. Video by Tony Nguyen.
Holloway Series at Berkeley in 2010
Starting at 57:52, I read two poems about tech. The first about the iPad (which was launched the same day as our South Asian poetry anthology Indivisible) , the second about Facebook, noting that national news anchors like Katie Couric were reporting on changes in Facebook while omitting news about famine and other disasters.