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Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci & Ethan Zuckerman share drft chap's of the "Field Guide to Social Media" (MIT Press). "... our hope is to capture insights that are still relevant in 50 years. Those insights are influenced by our sense that the common understanding of social media is often shallow and narrow."

Catherine D'Ignazio (Catherine D'Ignazio @kanarinka.bsky.social) wrote an incredible book on feminist data activism, so you know we had to interview her. "Counting Feminicde" is out now on The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social. publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/99-cat…

I'm so honored to be on the Reimagining the Internet podcast talking with my dear friend and mentor Ethan Zuckerman !

With my brilliant friends at Knight First Amendment Institute, I filed suit against Meta today, asking a federal court to find that CDA section 230 gives users rights to control what they see on social media via third party tools. See our complaint at knightcolumbia.org/cases/zuckerma…

In his first ever New York Times op-ed, iDPI leader Ethan Zuckerman says: "I Love Facebook. That's Why I'm Suing Meta." nytimes.com/2024/05/05/opi…

A brief update on my sidequest, Zuckerman vs. Meta - no court news, but lots of fun commentary, including great pieces in WaPo and Ars Technica - ethanzuckerman.com/2024/05/09/a-b…

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-zu…

Wonderful paper from Virginia Partridge and our lab (iDPI) on the data crunching behind Redditmap.social, our tool for studying related communities on Reddit, in WebSci '24: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

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-di…

Cory Doctorow (Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK) coined the term "enshittification." This week on Reimagining, he tells us 4 viable ways to end it. publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/102-co…

How did frontporchforum turn into a climate disaster 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-go…

MetaFilter turns 25 this year, as a shining beacon of the Good Web. Reluctant owner Jessamyn West sat down with Mike (in person!) to talk about how moderation, community governance, and a very old backend have kept it alive. publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/104-go…

Slow and steady: how Are.na became the Good Web for artists, designers, and researchers who love unusual connections publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/105-ar…

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 (🎥 lola.exe 🖊️) talks about accessibility fundamentals and the fascinating process the W3C uses to develop standards publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/106-lo…

How could a PBS of the Internet help create a more human web? Laurel Schwulst (@roombaghost) 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-la…

Ryan McGrady (Antisomniac on bsky and the elephant thing) and now-lab-album Kevin Zheng (k) attended the 10th International Conference on Computational Social Science last month to present on some of their YouTube research. Ryan recapped some of what they saw: publicinfrastructure.org/2024/09/23/ic2…

For our fifth annual Reimagining the Internet Holiday Special, we're putting on our Santa hat and giving gifts! publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/108-ho…