112 episodes
Reimagining the Internet 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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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.
Trigger/content warning: child sexual abuse materials, sexual exploitation of children, and trauma stemming from sexual abuse. Brian Levine has a storied career as a computer scientist working in cybersecurity. Earler, pivotal work in privacy has given way to his current all-hands-on-deck fight against the spread of CSAM (child sexual abuse material) online. Ethan and Brian […]
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Rewind: Timnit Gebru Looks at Corporate AI and Sees a Lot of Bad Science
Rerun of episode 85 from August, 16 2023 Timnit Gebru is not just a pioneering critic of dangerous AI datasets who calls bullshit on bad science pushed by the likes of OpenAI, or a tireless champion of racial, gender, and climate justice in computing. She’s also someone who wants to build something different. This week […]
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Rewind: Ted Lasso’s Dylan Marron wants to redeem Jar Jar Binks
This is a rerun of episode 84. Jar Jar Binks, the human side of online harassment, restorative justice, the Friends writers room, solidarity with UPS, what life looks like in the creative gig economy after your show has won an Emmy. Dylan Marron (Ted Lasso, Welcome to Nightvale) joins us for a sprawling, poignant conversation […]
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97. There are 14 billion videos on YouTube. Mr. Beast, we hereby challenge you to watch them all.
Our lab’s Ryan McGrady and Kevin Zheng are taking a victory lap around some amazing work they’re doing here at the lab. Ryan just published an article in The Atlantic about the research he’s leading to understand how big YouTube is and what exactly is on it, and Kevin recently debuted his amazing tool to […]
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Rewind: The Netherlands’ most important sociologist is building the other DPI: the Dutch Public Internet
Rerun of episode 69 from February 15th, 2023. José van Dijck is arguably the preeminent sociologist in the Netherlands, conducting research about how online platforms have crept into public life that has proved foundational to European regulation like the Digital Services Act. Today on Reimagining the Internet, José talks to us about PubHubs, an attempt to build […]
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Rewind: Third Wave Internet with Ben Tarnoff
Rerun of episode 81 from June 24th, 2023 We’re always told algorithms are going to change our world. And they do, but it always seems to be for the worse. Do we have any alternative to simply breaking the machines that have run afoul of our values and needs? We’re thrilled to welcome Ben Tarnoff […]
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This podcast raises big questions and explores a variety of solutions from such a diverse pool of people - highly recommended for anyone who uses the internet (that is, everyone!)
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I'm designing an AI+Society course at Princeton, and was glad to come across this podcast. I appreciate the use of positive examples of tech done well: in this case, Wikipedia's unique structure to foster creation of neutral content. It would be great to provide transcripts somewhere for those non-podcast-people, if possible.