YouTube Resources

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM8SwZkvCIY

A long review of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, human needs, and human psychology

The Role of Social Media: Maintaining Effective Use of Communication: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2d2Ri2Hj4I

A clip from Sara Meaney about the importance of maintaining interpersonal communication in a high-tech world

How Social Media Affects Communication and Relationships

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1lUJRil3j0

In this brief video, Melissa Galt discusses interaction between social media and real relationships

Marshall McLuhan: The World is a Global Village

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeDnPP6ntic

An excerpt from a 1960s-era CBC program

What Is Empathy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw

An RSA Short featuring Dr Brené Brown

Writing Effective E-Mail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oQeYeley1I

Etiquette tips for ensuring your messages communicate effectively

Three Ways to Improve Your Communication Skills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5hMN_XkPQA

This short video ties to several of the key ideas in this chapter

It’s Not about the Nail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg

You’ve likely seen this video before, but watch it again with the concepts from this chapter in mind. Is more communication making things better for this couple?

Two Poems about What Dogs Think (Probably)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOvbl3ZPPV4&list=UUAuUUnT6oDeKwE6v1NGQ%20ug

American poet Billy Collins, on how dogs might communicate in words if they could (comedy)

TED Talks

Neha Sangwan, “The communication cure”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOZ84ZfDqKM

Dr Neha Sangwan looks at how communication affects people’s physical well-being.

Uri Hasson, “This is your brain on communication”

https://www.ted.com/talks/uri_hasson_this_is_your_brain_on_communication

Neuroscientist Uri Hasson explains how human brains respond to language and argues that alignment is what allows us to produce meaning

Sophie Scott, “Why we laugh”

https://www.ted.com/talks/sophie_scott_why_we_laugh

Neuroscientist Sophie Scott explains the evolution and social functions of laughter

Stuart Russell, “Three principles for creating safer AI”

https://www.ted.com/talks/stuart_russell_3_principles_for_creating_safer_ai

AI researcher Stuart Russell explains the significance of AI development and how we can guide AI to be compatible with human safety

Grady Booch, “Don’t fear superintelligent AI”

https://www.ted.com/talks/grady_booch_don_t_fear_superintelligence

Grady Booch picks up themes raised in the previous TED talk and explains how engineering is trying to build human-supportive AI

Poppy Crum, “Technology that knows what you’re feeling”

https://www.ted.com/talks/poppy_crum_technology_that_knows_what_you_re_feeling

Neuroscientist Poppy Crum explains how technology’s ability to perceive human emotions could improve human lives

Kate Darling, “Why we have an emotional connection to robots”

https://www.ted.com/talks/kate_darling_why_we_have_an_emotional_connection_to_robots

Finally, robot ethicist Kate Darling explains how and why humans form emotional bonds with robots, what this bonding means for the development of technology, and how robots can teach empathy