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Reimagining the Internet — 129 episodes
117. Alondra Nelson, Biden’s Head of Science and Technology Policy, talks AI, Trump’s research funding cuts, and how memes replaced Happy Days
116. How should governments use technology? To build trust, says Eric Gordon
113. Deleting Everything with Dan Saltman
112. Governing the Fediverse: Erin Kissane talks her groundbreaking study into how Mastodon is run (Part 2)
111. How Facebook Stoked Civil War in Myanmar, with Erin Kissane
110. Is there hope for democracy in a social media-driven world? Nathan Schneider sees it every day.
109. Evelyn Douek, please tell us what is going on with the First Amendment and social media
108. Internet of Gifts: The 5th Annual Reimagining Holiday Special
107. How could a PBS of the Internet cultivate a more human web? Laurel Schwulst on a lighter weight Internet (Good Web)
106. What You Need to Know About Web Accessibility with Lola Odelola (Good Web)
105. Slow and steady: how Are.na became the Good Web for artists, designers, and researchers who love unusual connections.
104. MetaFilter turns 25 this month, a shining beacon of the Good Web. Reluctant owner Jessamyn West tells us how rusty tech and vibrant community keeps it vital.
103. How did Vermont’s favorite civic social network turn into a climate disaster response network overnight? Michael Wood-Lewis Tells Us About His Local Good Web
102. Cory Doctorow Coined “Enshittification.” He Sees 4 Ways to End It.
101. Reframing Digital Safety with Diana Freed: For Survivors and Youth, The Biggest Threats Come From Everyday Tech
100. A Better Internet for Humans with Ethan Zuckerman and Mike Sugarman
99. Do You Want to Use Data to Fight for Justice? Catherine D’Ignazio Wrote the Book For You
98. UMass’s very own Brian Levine is one of the foremost cybersecurity experts on CSAM. Here’s how he thinks we can make the Internet safer for children.
Rewind: Timnit Gebru Looks at Corporate AI and Sees a Lot of Bad Science
Rewind: Ted Lasso’s Dylan Marron wants to redeem Jar Jar Binks
97. There are 14 billion videos on YouTube. Mr. Beast, we hereby challenge you to watch them all.
Rewind: The Netherlands’ most important sociologist is building the other DPI: the Dutch Public Internet
Rewind: Third Wave Internet with Ben Tarnoff
Rewind: iDPI’s New Manifesto: The Three-Legged Stool
96. Should All Old Passwords Be Forgot: The 2023 Holiday Special
95. What’s the answer when workplace surveillance creeps into the home? Ifeoma Ajunwa says civil rights and organized labor
94. How does Meduza’s Kevin Rothrock publish some of the best reporting about Russia? From far, far away.
93. Reddit is powered by community moderators. We asked former senior mod Kethryvis if that can last.
92. Where’d all the music blogs go? with Emilie Friedlander
91. Global Voices has spent 19 years platforming bloggers in 52 languages. Georgia Popplewell, where does it go from here?
90. Are American politics more polarized than ever? Brendan Nyhan thinks social media just helps us see it more.
89. Facebook scores your politics with a number. Brendan Nyhan figured out what they do with it. (Part 1 of 2)
88. Does Facebook change your politics? Talia Stroud is leading studies to find out.
87. Before Laura Edelson was the DOJ’s chief antitrust technologist, Facebook deleted her account
86. danah boyd on freaks, geeks, queers, and lying to the US Census
85. Timnit Gebru Looks at Corporate AI and Sees a Lot of Bad Science
84. Ted Lasso’s Dylan Marron Wants to Redeem Jar Jar Binks
83. A History of Why the Internet Sucks Right Now with Dave Karpf
82. Twitter Blocked Tracy Chou’s Anti-Harassment App. Now She Wants to Fix Your Browser.
81 Third Wave Internet with Ben Tarnoff
80 *Slaps Roof of Algorithm* You Can Fit so Much Taste in This Thing with Nick Seaver
79 Taking Stock of the Everything Store with Moira Weigel
78 We Mapped Reddit with Jasmine Mangat and Virginia Partridge
77 Lawful But Awful and the Future of Social Media with Daphne Keller (part 2)
76 Platforms v. Supreme Court with Daphne Keller (part 1)
75 iDPI’s New Manifesto: The Three-Legged Stool
74 Do You Trust that Justice is Just? with Nathan Matias, Tracey Meares, and Tom Tyler (Trust episode 4)
73 How to Start a Guild with Kei Kreutler and T.L. Taylor (Trust episode 3)
72 Why Would People Trust Crypto? with Finn Brunton and Molly White (Trust episode 2)
71 Do We Trust the Internet? with evelyn douek and Primavera de Filippi (Trust episode 1)
70 The Mars Rover Isn’t Stealing Our Data, with Janet Vertesi
69 The Netherlands’ most important sociologist is building the other DPI: the Dutch Public Internet
68 Justice That We Can Trust with Tracey Meares and Tom Tyler
67 Otherweb Cuts Junk from Your News Diet
66 It’s a Wonderful Internet: The 2022 Holiday Special
65 This One Weird Trick for a Changing Society with Gal Beckerman
64 Forgetful Advertising with Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci
63 See Through AI Hype with Arvind Narayanan
62 Librarian Jessamyn West on the Classroom Where We Learn to be Human
61 Why Does a Librarian Own a Social Media Site That’s Been Around for Longer Than Facebook?
60 Googling like an Evangelical with Francesca Tripodi
59 Ben Tarnoff Wants an Internet for the People
58 Will Google and Meta Control Africa’s Broadband? with Andrew Blum and Carey Baraka
57 The Attention Economy with Vincent F. Hendricks and Camilla Mehlsen
56 Brandy Zadrozny, NBC’s Conspiracy Theory Sleuth
55 Internet of Goldfish with Bruno Patino
54 How do we reimagine Twitter?
53 Brandon Silverman, ex-Crowdtangle/Facebook: “legislation is coming”
52 Cory Doctorow wants to set your Facebook data free
51 It’s About Safety in Gaming with T.L. Taylor
50 How to Fix the Internet with EFF
Reimagine with Us
49 Molly White Thinks Web3 is Going Just Great
48 Jonathan Corpus Ong on Digital Labor in the Phillipines
47 Olivia Junell and Alex Inglizian, Experimental Sound Studio
46 The Lost French Web with Kevin Driscoll
45 Fighting Casteism in Tech with Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Rerun — Trebor Scholz, Platform Cooperative Consortium
44 Nathan Schneider, Pt. 2 (Blockchain Governance)
43 Nathan Schneider, Pt. 1 (Platform Coops)
42 A Reimagining Carol
Rerun — Jimmy Wales, Wikimedia Foundation
41 Wikipedia, The Last Bastion of Truth Online with Heather Ford
40 The Real Silicon Valley, with Fred Turner
Rerun — Amy Zhang, University of Washington
39 Tracy Chou Wants to Help You Avoid Trolls
38 The Spotify Problem, with Damon Krukowski
Rerun — Talia Stroud, Civic Signals
37 Maciej Ceglowski Wants a Smaller Internet for a Better World
36 Are.na’s Visual Utopia with Charles Broskoski and Daniel Pianetti
35 Social Media for Activism with Deen Freelon
Rerun — Elizabeth Hansen-Shapiro
34 Fixing Failed Moderation with Sarita Schoenenbeck
33 Caroline Sinders Wants to Design Online Spaces for Safety
Bonus: Omar Wasow part 2
32 Jillian C. Yorke Thinks Fighting Censorship Needs Platform Accounability
31 The AOL-era Black Internet with Omar Wasow
Welcome to Season 2 of Reimagining the Internet
30 evelyn douek (#Reimagine conference, May 2021)
29 Jonathan Ong (#Reimagine conference, May 2021)
28 Eliza Sorensen (#Reimagine Conference, May 2021)
27 Michael Wood-Lewis (#Reimagine Conference, May 2021)
26 Sarah Lomax-Reese (#Reimagine Conference, May 2021)
25 Daphne Keller (#Reimagine conference, May 2021)
24 Cory Doctorow (#Reimagine conference, May 2021)
23 Francesca Tripodi (#Reimagine Conference, May 2021)
22 Barbara Fister (#Reimagine conference, May 2021)
21 Katherine Maher (#Reimagine conference, May 2021)
20 Ethan Zuckerman (#Reimagine conference, May 2021)
19 The Sex Worker Web with Lola Hunt and Eliza Sorensen
18 The Prehistory of Black Twitter with Charlton McIlwain
17 GJ Bogaerts is Building Dutch Public Social Media
16 Davi Ottenheimer, Inrupt
15 Platform Oversight Needs Accessible Data with Elizabeth Hansen-Shapiro
14 Julia Angwin on The Markup’s Groundbreaking Data Journalism
13 A Non-Toxic Nextdoor with Front Porch Forum’s Michael Wood-Lewis
12 Jimmy Wales Tells Us the Story of Wikipedia
11 Wendy Liu, Abolish Silicon Valley
10 The Web without Venture Capital: Trebor Scholz on Platform Coopertivism
09 Amy Zhang is Building Open Sources Tools for Healthy Online Communities
08 Holiday Special with Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci and Mike Sugarman
07 Reimagining Digital Music with Liz Pelly
06 Tim Hwang, Subprime Attention Crisis
05 Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI
04 Kevin Roose, The New York Times
03 Safiya Noble, UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry
02 Evan Henshaw-Plath, Planetary.Social
01 Talia Stroud, Civic Signals
Welcome to Reimagining the Internet