Paris Marx is joined by Becca Lewis to discuss the right-wing project to shape the internet in the 1990s and how we’re still living with the legacies of those actions today.
Becca Lewis is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
• Paris wrote about Marc Andreessen mentioning the Italian Futurists in his Techno-Optimist Manifesto • . • Ruth Eveleth wrote about the Italian Futurists • in the context of Silicon Valley. • In 1995, Wired • published a story • on how “America’s futurist politicians” Al Gore and Newt Gingrich were in an epic struggle to shape the internet. • Becca mentioned the work of Nicole Hemmer • and Patricia Aufderheide.
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Paris Marx is joined by Becca Lewis to discuss the right-wing project to shape the internet in the 1990s and how we’re still living with the legacies of those actions today.
Becca Lewis is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
• Paris wrote about Marc Andreessen mentioning the Italian Futurists in his Techno-Optimist Manifesto • . • Ruth Eveleth wrote about the Italian Futurists • in the context of Silicon Valley. • In 1995, Wired • published a story • on how “America’s futurist politicians” Al Gore and Newt Gingrich were in an epic struggle to shape the internet. • Becca mentioned the work of Nicole Hemmer • and Patricia Aufderheide.
Support the show
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