117. Alondra Nelson, Biden’s Head of Science and Technology Policy, talks AI, Trump’s research funding cuts, and how memes replaced Happy Days
Alondra Nelson is arguably the most important sociologist of science in America. She isn’t just a brilliant researcher of how race and racism has shaped public health in America, nor just a thoughtful, savvy tech policy maker. She is also someone with a gift for communicating research and ideas on these huge, important matters in […]
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116. How should governments use technology? To build trust, says Eric Gordon
Eric Gordon has spent his career as an social scientists trying to understand how city governments can use technology to better engage their citizens. But he’s learned that technology doesn’t matter if governments aren’t willing to listen and citizens don’t feel listened to. Add to surveillance technology to the mix, and technology doesn’t seem to […]
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115. Surveillance Watch tracks the corporations tracking you (Esra’a Al Shafei part 2)
As highlighted in part one of this interview, Esra’a Al Shafei has been a key figure in online activism in the Arab world for much of this century. Her community-driven Surveillance Watch project tracking the shadowy surveillance industry came from her first hand experience of seeing governments enlist tools built by private companies to track […]
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114. Repressive regimes have never stopped Majal from building safe online spaces for queer folk, dissidents, and migrants. (Esra’a Al Shafei Part One)
Since the late aughts, Bahraini activist Esra’a Al Shafei has been building spaces where Arab and Middle Eastern queer folk, dissidents, and migrants can safely gather online, often amid governmental suppression. In part one of our interview with Esra’a, we talk through some of the oral history of her long-running Majal project and the queer-centric […]
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113. Deleting Everything with Dan Saltman
Dan Saltman is the founder of Redact, one of the very few tools that lets you delete data across many of your social media accounts. So why are there so few projects that put users in control of their data, like Dan’s? This week on Reimagining, we talk about the legal, technical, and market obstacles […]
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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