Rewilding the Internet with Maria Farrell

About this episode

Gus and Caitlin discuss rewilding the Internet with guest Maria Farrell, exploring how ecology can inform our relationship with digital spaces.

This week Gus and Caitlin are rewilding the Internet with Maria Farrell. What do you want using the internet or your devices to feel like? What can ecology teach us about unwinding corporate capture of the digital commons? How do we take back our home online? Links - Maria's original rewilding article, with Robin Berjon, in Noema: https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/ - Maria's article 'This is your phone on feminism': https://conversationalist.org/2019/09/13/feminism-explains-our-toxic-relationships-with-our-smartphones/ - A talk Maria gave about rewilding: https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/ - Maria's website where you can keep an eye to find out when her book is coming out! http://mariafarrell.com/ - More about PI's work on competition: https://privacyinternational.org/learn/competition-and-data

People in this episode

Hosts: Gus, Caitlin

Guest: Maria Farrell

Topics covered

• rewilding the internet
• digital commons
• ecology
• corporate capture
• online privacy

Keywords

• internet
• ecology
• corporate capture
• digital commons
• privacy
• feminism
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Privacy International

Books & works: This is your phone on feminism, we need to rewild the internet

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