A Podcast About Technology, Media, AI, and the Internet
Network Issues is a podcast about the systems shaping our digital lives—and what those systems are doing to our culture, careers, relationships, politics, and sense of reality.
Hosted by media scholar Jamie Cohen and marketing strategist Destinee Day, the show brings academic insight and real-world industry experience to the internet’s most urgent questions. Each episode explores how artificial intelligence, social media algorithms, online communities, digital advertising, influencer culture, misinformation, surveillance, and emerging technologies are changing the way we communicate and make decisions.
Network Issues goes beyond headlines and surface-level technology news. Jamie and Destinee examine the power structures, business models, cultural forces, and human behaviors behind the platforms we use every day. Their conversations make complex topics accessible without oversimplifying them—helping listeners better understand how the internet works, who benefits from it, and how to navigate it with greater agency.
Whether you work in media, marketing, education, technology, or simply want to understand the forces shaping life online, Network Issues offers thoughtful, candid conversations about the internet as it exists today—and where it may be taking us next.
Watch, listen, and explore every episode of Network Issues below.
What Louis Theroux’s Inside the Manosphere Gets Right—and Leaves Out
Louis Theroux enters the world of red-pill influencers, hypermasculine performers, and online misogyny. Jamie Cohen and Destinee Day examine what the documentary reveals about the manosphere—and what it leaves audiences to figure out for themselves.
What Is Looksmaxxing—and Why Is It Suddenly Everywhere?
Looksmaxxing is often presented as skincare, fitness, and self-improvement for men. Its deeper history leads through incel forums, pickup artistry, black-pill ideology, pseudoscience, body-image pressure, and influencers selling dangerous shortcuts. Jamie Cohen and Destinee Day explain how the term entered mainstream culture—and why context matters.
Did Harambe Mark the End of Internet Monoculture?
Ten years after Harambe’s death, Jamie Cohen argues that the meme marked more than a strange viral moment. It may represent the point when mainstream media and internet culture stopped sharing one collective conversation—and the platform-driven internet took over.