TORONTO – Ontario’s public educational broadcaster TVO and Q Media Solutions are launching a new multiplatform series this summer that examines how digital technology is transforming the world.
Throughout July and August, Pull, presented by TVO’s flagship current affairs program, The Agenda with Steve Paikin, will be featured as a new series both online and on-air.
The online home for Pull features over 40 web-exclusive video interviews that engage viewers in how technology is changing the conversation in a number of areas including: social interaction, the not-for-profit sector, business, government, health care, media, and education.
TVO’s summertime edition of The Agenda with Steve Paikin, The Agenda in the Summer, forms the on-air component of Pull, with anchor and senior editor Steve Paikin welcoming technology experts for in-depth, half-hour conversations Fridays at 8 and 11 p.m. in July and August.
“It’s hard for me to think of anything that is changing – and disrupting – our lives more right now than digital technologies," said Dan Dunsky, executive producer of The Agenda, in a release. "I think the Pull series and The Agenda in the Summer content definitely help to make this complex subject accessible and will provoke some fascinating conversations.”
Pull aims to place technological changes and their impact in context by highlighting key trends and presenting interviews with innovators and technology experts who offer real world examples of how these technologies are being applied today and discussing what the potential is for the future.
The show’s online component will feature interviews with people such as StartUp Health founder Unity Stoakes on how sharing data can improve health and cure disease, author Jonah Berger on how psychology drives viral success, The Globe and Mail’s Teena Poirer on crowdsourcing opinions for the news, and University of Southern California professor and author Henry Jenkins on the impact participatory culture is having on everything from media to education and government.
Some of the featured guests on The Agenda in the Summer include author Marina Gorbis on the rise of the social economy, media guru Mitch Joel on the need to update business models for the future, Clay Johnson on applying open source principles to government, and Cathy Davidson on how classrooms are transforming to accommodate our changing world.
