Close All Tabs - Introducing Close All Tabs

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

New episodes drop weekly starting February 26!  Tech journalist Morgan Sung spends most of her day online—so you don’t have to. Each week, Morgan tackles a new topic that might seem niche on the surface but is destined to impact our lives—both online and off. She pulls from experts, creators, and history to add context to the trends and depth to the memes. And she’ll wrestle with as many browser tabs as it takes to explain the cultural moment we’re all collectively living. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The internet. It's where so many cultural trends start. You see how you do my makeup for work? Very demure. Very mindful. And where they thrive and grow. I'm Mr. Beas. These are my five.

It's where subcultures gather. And for all my Harry Potter fans, I'm cool. South Korean caper group. BTS. And where misinformation confesser. It's where we all live everything. day. What's up?

Travel. It's dying to get to get to and even if you say you don't

use social media, you can never really escape the internet. I'm Morgan Sung,

host of Close All Tabs from KQED where every week we reveal how the online world

collides with everyday life. We dive into everything from the politics of memes

to the wild west of the influencer economy to which tech company everyone's mad at this week.

And we're forever trying to answer the question. Are our phones listening to us? I talk to creators, journalists, and industry experts to help you make sense of the digital chaos. So my first reaction was, ha ha, this is so funny. My next reaction was, wait a minute, I'm a journalist. Is this real? It's so outrageous and so you're ready. There's a lot of political power to becoming a meme. And I think we will see a Twitch streamer president, maybe within our lifetimes. I don't think the internet's dead, but I think it's like maimed.

Here we are just desperately, like, yearning for human connection. Find and follow Close All Tabs anywhere you listen to podcasts. And for more information, go to kQED.org slash close all tabs.