The Forgotten Story of How Conservatives Shaped the Internet w/ Becca Lewis
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The Forgotten Story of How Conservatives Shaped the Internet
Becca Lewis
Notes
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.
Guest
Becca Lewis is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University.
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Links
- 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.