Ryan McGrady (@antisomniac.bsky.social@ze.vinpublicinfrastructure.org/2024/09/23/i...
A few weeks ago, several hundred academics, students, and professionals gathered at the University of Pennsylvania for the 10th International Conference on Computational Social Science: two-and-a-half...
How could a PBS of the Internet help create a more human web? Laurel Schwulst joins our final Good Web episode to talk about how fostering a more creative Internet enriches users and betters all of our lives online. publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/107-...
For the final episode of our Good Web series, artist, designer, and educator Laurel Schwulst joins Mike to talk through her proposal for a PBS of the Internet. She describes how a PBS-like body that i...
A Good Web isn't just a nicer web, but one that's accessible to all who want to take part. This week on our Good Web series, Lola Odelola talks about accessibility fundamentals and the fascinating process the W3C uses to develop standards publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/106-...
Building a Good Web doesn't just mean making the current Internet a nicer place, but making an Internet that everyone can use. This week Lola Odelola (Lola's Lab, formerly of Bocoup) joins the Good We...
Slow and steady: how became Are.napublicinfrastructure.org/podcast/105-...
At 13 years old, Are.na boasts a healthy, creative community and stable finances while rejecting many of the hallmarks of popular social media platforms such as a focus on video, endless push notifica...
MetaFilter turns 25 this year, as a shining beacon of the Good Web. Reluctant owner Jessamyn West (@librarian.bsky.socialpublicinfrastructure.org/podcast/104-...
Metafilter contains the seeds for everything from Twitter to Reddit to comments sections on blogs, and it's older than podcasts, the blog boom, Facebook, and well, basically everything online. Owner J...
How did Front Porch Forum turn into a climate disastser response network overnight? Michael Wood-Lewis tells us it was built on years of making the site the best tool for Vermont neighbors possible. This week on Reimagining, the Good Web. publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/103-...
Michael Wood-Lewis from Front Porch Forum joins us for this second (maybe third?) appearance to help us kick off our Good Web series, where we're highlighting the successful people building a better, ...
Cory Doctorow coined the term "enshittification." This week on Reimagining, he tells us 4 viable ways to end it. publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/102-...
To kick off our Good Web series, Cory Doctorow joined us for a deep dive into his enshittification theory, and how regulation, labor power, competition, and user self-help will make it a thing of the ...
What's the biggest cybersecurity threat to survivors of intimate partner violence and youth? Diana Freed joins Reimagining to tell us about her groundbreaking research into how abusers use everyday technology, and what she's doing to help survivors publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/101-...
CW/TW: Intimate partner violence, child exploitation Diana Freed has spent the past several years radically reframing the threat model in cybersecurity with groundbreaking research into how domestic a...
OPEN ACCESS LINK! Here's the direct open access link where you can download chapters and read the whole book for free: direct.mit.edu/books/book/5...
Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science.What isn't counte
100 episodes of Reimagining the Internet! We really had no idea we'd be doing it this long. For this special episode, Ethan and Mike got together in person to talk through their ideas about making an Internet that's actually nice for humans to use. publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/100-...
For the 100th episode of Reimagining the Internet, Ethan and Mike sit down for a conversation about a human-scale Internet, the threat of an LLM ouroboros destroying our online commons, and Ethan's fa...