Reimagining the Internet
By Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
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Reimagining the Internet is a production of the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst, asking scholars, activists, journalists, and artists what is broken on the internet and how to fix it.
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117. Alondra Nelson, Biden’s Head of Science and Technology Policy, talks AI, Trump’s research funding cuts, and how memes replaced Happy Days
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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116. How should governments use technology? To build trust, says Eric Gordon
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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113. Deleting Everything with Dan Saltman
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May 15, 2025 |
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112. Governing the Fediverse: Erin Kissane talks her groundbreaking study into how Mastodon is run (Part 2)
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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111. How Facebook Stoked Civil War in Myanmar, with Erin Kissane
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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110. Is there hope for democracy in a social media-driven world? Nathan Schneider sees it every day.
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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109. Evelyn Douek, please tell us what is going on with the First Amendment and social media
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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108. Internet of Gifts: The 5th Annual Reimagining Holiday Special
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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107. How could a PBS of the Internet cultivate a more human web? Laurel Schwulst on a lighter weight Internet (Good Web)
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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106. What You Need to Know About Web Accessibility with Lola Odelola (Good Web)
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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105. Slow and steady: how Are.na became the Good Web for artists, designers, and researchers who love unusual connections.
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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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.
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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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
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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102. Cory Doctorow Coined “Enshittification.” He Sees 4 Ways to End It.
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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101. Reframing Digital Safety with Diana Freed: For Survivors and Youth, The Biggest Threats Come From Everyday Tech
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May 29, 2024 |
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100. A Better Internet for Humans with Ethan Zuckerman and Mike Sugarman
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May 15, 2024 |
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99. Do You Want to Use Data to Fight for Justice? Catherine D’Ignazio Wrote the Book For You
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May 01, 2024 |
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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.
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Rewind: Timnit Gebru Looks at Corporate AI and Sees a Lot of Bad Science
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Rewind: Ted Lasso’s Dylan Marron wants to redeem Jar Jar Binks
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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97. There are 14 billion videos on YouTube. Mr. Beast, we hereby challenge you to watch them all.
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Rewind: The Netherlands’ most important sociologist is building the other DPI: the Dutch Public Internet
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Rewind: Third Wave Internet with Ben Tarnoff
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Rewind: iDPI’s New Manifesto: The Three-Legged Stool
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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96. Should All Old Passwords Be Forgot: The 2023 Holiday Special
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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95. What’s the answer when workplace surveillance creeps into the home? Ifeoma Ajunwa says civil rights and organized labor
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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94. How does Meduza’s Kevin Rothrock publish some of the best reporting about Russia? From far, far away.
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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93. Reddit is powered by community moderators. We asked former senior mod Kethryvis if that can last.
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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92. Where’d all the music blogs go? with Emilie Friedlander
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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91. Global Voices has spent 19 years platforming bloggers in 52 languages. Georgia Popplewell, where does it go from here?
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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90. Are American politics more polarized than ever? Brendan Nyhan thinks social media just helps us see it more.
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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89. Facebook scores your politics with a number. Brendan Nyhan figured out what they do with it. (Part 1 of 2)
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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88. Does Facebook change your politics? Talia Stroud is leading studies to find out.
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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87. Before Laura Edelson was the DOJ’s chief antitrust technologist, Facebook deleted her account
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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86. danah boyd on freaks, geeks, queers, and lying to the US Census
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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85. Timnit Gebru Looks at Corporate AI and Sees a Lot of Bad Science
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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84. Ted Lasso’s Dylan Marron Wants to Redeem Jar Jar Binks
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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83. A History of Why the Internet Sucks Right Now with Dave Karpf
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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82. Twitter Blocked Tracy Chou’s Anti-Harassment App. Now She Wants to Fix Your Browser.
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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81 Third Wave Internet with Ben Tarnoff
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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80 *Slaps Roof of Algorithm* You Can Fit so Much Taste in This Thing with Nick Seaver
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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79 Taking Stock of the Everything Store with Moira Weigel
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May 17, 2023 |
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78 We Mapped Reddit with Jasmine Mangat and Virginia Partridge
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May 11, 2023 |
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77 Lawful But Awful and the Future of Social Media with Daphne Keller (part 2)
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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76 Platforms v. Supreme Court with Daphne Keller (part 1)
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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75 iDPI’s New Manifesto: The Three-Legged Stool
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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74 Do You Trust that Justice is Just? with Nathan Matias, Tracey Meares, and Tom Tyler (Trust episode 4)
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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73 How to Start a Guild with Kei Kreutler and T.L. Taylor (Trust episode 3)
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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72 Why Would People Trust Crypto? with Finn Brunton and Molly White (Trust episode 2)
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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71 Do We Trust the Internet? with evelyn douek and Primavera de Filippi (Trust episode 1)
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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70 The Mars Rover Isn’t Stealing Our Data, with Janet Vertesi
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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69 The Netherlands’ most important sociologist is building the other DPI: the Dutch Public Internet
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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68 Justice That We Can Trust with Tracey Meares and Tom Tyler
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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67 Otherweb Cuts Junk from Your News Diet
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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66 It’s a Wonderful Internet: The 2022 Holiday Special
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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65 This One Weird Trick for a Changing Society with Gal Beckerman
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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64 Forgetful Advertising with Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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63 See Through AI Hype with Arvind Narayanan
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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62 Librarian Jessamyn West on the Classroom Where We Learn to be Human
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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61 Why Does a Librarian Own a Social Media Site That’s Been Around for Longer Than Facebook?
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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60 Googling like an Evangelical with Francesca Tripodi
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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59 Ben Tarnoff Wants an Internet for the People
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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58 Will Google and Meta Control Africa’s Broadband? with Andrew Blum and Carey Baraka
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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57 The Attention Economy with Vincent F. Hendricks and Camilla Mehlsen
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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56 Brandy Zadrozny, NBC’s Conspiracy Theory Sleuth
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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55 Internet of Goldfish with Bruno Patino
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May 26, 2022 |
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54 How do we reimagine Twitter?
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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53 Brandon Silverman, ex-Crowdtangle/Facebook: “legislation is coming”
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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52 Cory Doctorow wants to set your Facebook data free
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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51 It’s About Safety in Gaming with T.L. Taylor
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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50 How to Fix the Internet with EFF
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Reimagine with Us
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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49 Molly White Thinks Web3 is Going Just Great
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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48 Jonathan Corpus Ong on Digital Labor in the Phillipines
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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47 Olivia Junell and Alex Inglizian, Experimental Sound Studio
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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46 The Lost French Web with Kevin Driscoll
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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45 Fighting Casteism in Tech with Thenmozhi Soundararajan
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Rerun — Trebor Scholz, Platform Cooperative Consortium
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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44 Nathan Schneider, Pt. 2 (Blockchain Governance)
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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43 Nathan Schneider, Pt. 1 (Platform Coops)
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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42 A Reimagining Carol
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Rerun — Jimmy Wales, Wikimedia Foundation
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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41 Wikipedia, The Last Bastion of Truth Online with Heather Ford
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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40 The Real Silicon Valley, with Fred Turner
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Rerun — Amy Zhang, University of Washington
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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39 Tracy Chou Wants to Help You Avoid Trolls
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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38 The Spotify Problem, with Damon Krukowski
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Rerun — Talia Stroud, Civic Signals
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Nov 06, 2021 |
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37 Maciej Ceglowski Wants a Smaller Internet for a Better World
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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36 Are.na’s Visual Utopia with Charles Broskoski and Daniel Pianetti
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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35 Social Media for Activism with Deen Freelon
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Rerun — Elizabeth Hansen-Shapiro
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Oct 16, 2021 |
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34 Fixing Failed Moderation with Sarita Schoenenbeck
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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33 Caroline Sinders Wants to Design Online Spaces for Safety
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Bonus: Omar Wasow part 2
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Oct 02, 2021 |
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32 Jillian C. Yorke Thinks Fighting Censorship Needs Platform Accounability
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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31 The AOL-era Black Internet with Omar Wasow
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Welcome to Season 2 of Reimagining the Internet
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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30 evelyn douek (#Reimagine conference, May 2021)
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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29 Jonathan Ong (#Reimagine conference, May 2021)
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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28 Eliza Sorensen (#Reimagine Conference, May 2021)
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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27 Michael Wood-Lewis (#Reimagine Conference, May 2021)
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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26 Sarah Lomax-Reese (#Reimagine Conference, May 2021)
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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25 Daphne Keller (#Reimagine conference, May 2021)
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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24 Cory Doctorow (#Reimagine conference, May 2021)
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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23 Francesca Tripodi (#Reimagine Conference, May 2021)
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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22 Barbara Fister (#Reimagine conference, May 2021)
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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21 Katherine Maher (#Reimagine conference, May 2021)
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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20 Ethan Zuckerman (#Reimagine conference, May 2021)
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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19 The Sex Worker Web with Lola Hunt and Eliza Sorensen
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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18 The Prehistory of Black Twitter with Charlton McIlwain
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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17 GJ Bogaerts is Building Dutch Public Social Media
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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16 Davi Ottenheimer, Inrupt
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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15 Platform Oversight Needs Accessible Data with Elizabeth Hansen-Shapiro
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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14 Julia Angwin on The Markup’s Groundbreaking Data Journalism
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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13 A Non-Toxic Nextdoor with Front Porch Forum’s Michael Wood-Lewis
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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12 Jimmy Wales Tells Us the Story of Wikipedia
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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11 Wendy Liu, Abolish Silicon Valley
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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10 The Web without Venture Capital: Trebor Scholz on Platform Coopertivism
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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09 Amy Zhang is Building Open Sources Tools for Healthy Online Communities
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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08 Holiday Special with Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci and Mike Sugarman
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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07 Reimagining Digital Music with Liz Pelly
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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06 Tim Hwang, Subprime Attention Crisis
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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05 Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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04 Kevin Roose, The New York Times
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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03 Safiya Noble, UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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02 Evan Henshaw-Plath, Planetary.Social
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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01 Talia Stroud, Civic Signals
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Welcome to Reimagining the Internet
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Oct 20, 2020 |