Renowned media theorist, artist, educator, and engineer Sandy Stone discusses her work with Olivia Records, and the controversy her transgender status attracted. Sandy also details her experience in higher education and the creation of ACTLab at UT Austin.
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By Jon Lebkowsky Originally published at Worldchanging.com, September 2, 2004 Politics is broken, how do we fix it? Political parties are part of the problem, but it’s unrealistic to expect…
Writer and technology critic Paulina Borsook has written for Wired, Mother Jones, and Suck.com. She is perhaps best known for her 2000 book Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly…
“John is the guy who made the WELL into a community” -Howard Rheingold John Coate has spent much of his life managing and building online communities, including the seminal online…
“Sacred Data and AI: An Indigenous Perspective” was recorded May 11, 2021, at an EFF-Austin meeting featuring Michael and Caroline Running Wolf. Michael Running Wolf was raised in a rural…
Patrick Lichty is a conceptual artist, curator, and theorist. He explores how media shape our perception of reality, as well as the borders between the digital and the material. Pat…
Technology writer and broadband consultant Steve Stroh discusses broadband access, rural wireless Internet providers, satellite-based Internet, and fiber networks.
Doc Searls joins the Plutopians to discuss social media’s impact on the Internet, mass media’s changes in the digital age, streaming music, movies, and much more. “Social media enhances conviviality…
Members of the Plutopia team discuss social media (including Clubhouse and Facebook), streaming entertainment, cancel culture, cartoons, gurus, and cults. What is social media for? What is it good for?…
“It’s not just robust, it’s not just resilient, but we will be stronger on the other side of adversity. So we went into the pandemic expecting to come out a…