Media Mothership - Edge Radio 99.3FM

19/06/2026

Technology changing culture and communication (AI, bots, predictive text, corporate ownership). Listen and watch here

Welcome to this week’s collection of articles, links and talking points for Media Mothership. The show airs live on Thursday 4 June from 4:00pm to 5:00pm. The topics listed below are intended as discussion starters, and the conversation may develop in unexpected directions during the broadcast. Fe...

11/06/2026

Unfortunately, I'm under the weather today and won't be hosting this week's Media Mothership show on Edge Radio. Thanks for your understanding. I'll be back next week with more music, discussion and podcast content.

05/06/2026

Episode 153 Creepypastas, Crime Sprees and Ghibli out now.
Watch here https://www.youtube.com/live/IIE5EXJjtt8?si=hmPEAHlzigRletZW
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We discuss the surprise success of Backrooms and what it means when a YouTube creator and a creepypasta can outperform major Hollywood franchises. We also examine Studio Ghibli's controversial restrictions on photography at Ghibli Park, and look at a recent experiment where AI models were placed in....

29/05/2026

New episode out now The pope quoting Gandalf while warning about AI, Red Dead Redemption 2's rise through the all-time sales charts, prediction markets turning into spoiler machines, and whether modern media increasingly requires homework to fully participate. Edge Radio 99.3FM
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https://www.edgeradio.org.au/shows/media-mothership/
https://www.youtube.com/live/QwBarY_YkEg
https://omny.fm/shows/media-mothership/living-inside-the-media-machine

Exploring some of the internet's most interesting recent stories: the pope quoting Gandalf while warning about AI, Red Dead Redemption 2's rise through the all-time sales charts, prediction markets turning into spoiler machines, and whether modern media increasingly requires homework to fully partic...

08/05/2026

Ep 149 out, roundtable discussion with LitRPG authors Shirtaloon, RinoZ, Haylock, Hannibal Forge, and Tevagah. Watch the live stream (and great conversation in the chat) here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/mlY6z0TBst8

A roundtable discussion with LitRPG authors Shirtaloon, RinoZ, Haylock, Hannibal Forge, and Tevagah on the rise of progression fantasy, Royal Road, independe...

17/04/2026

Fiction is starting to feel real.

Superman day, gamers are being recruited into real-world systems, and games keep chasing “realism.”

New episode out now.
Listen/watch here:
https://www.edgeradio.org.au/shows/media-mothership/
From Superman to Systems https://www.youtube.com/live/kOpW9TH2WPk?si=ULWk91ckYHVs8H9-
https://omny.fm/shows/media-mothership/from-superman-to-systems

Superman gets a global “anniversary,” gamers are being recruited into real-world systems, and video games keep chasing a version of realism that doesn’t quite exist. This week, Media Mothership drifts through fandom rituals, game design oddities, and the strange ways fictional worlds start to ...

03/04/2026

April Fools in gaming, Nintendo’s expanding media world, and why Democracy Manifest remains an enduring viral moment. This episode was recorded live at Edge Radio 99.3FM studios in Hobart Tasmania, and first aired on 2nd April 2026.
For more info on Media Mothership go to https://mediamothership.au/ and https://www.edgeradio.org.au/. Video episode available here: https://youtube.com/live/ioBEeLJayWk

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