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A New Era of Democracy Ep. 2 | Anasuya Sengupta

Apr 7, 2022

01:17:30

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

Whos Knowledge: A Global Multilingual Campaign and Feminist Collective to Center the Knowledges of Marginalized Communities Online

2min

The Context of Privilege and Marginalization

4min

The Impact of COVID on the Global South

4min

The Reification of Biases in the Internet

6min

The Tension of Pulling Down Old Institutions and Creating a Space for Unexpected Types of Objection

2min

The Importance of Traditional Structures in the Internet

3min

The Values of an Internet

4min

Distributed Governance: The Future of Algorithms

3min

10.

The Politics of the Internet

2min

11.

The Different Imaginations of a Digital Project

5min

12.

The Different Faces of Collaborative Writing

3min

13.

The Potential of a Digital Infrastructure

3min

14.

The Unease and Ambivalence of Wikipedia

2min

15.

The Importance of Tough Love in Blockchain Communities

4min

16.

The Importance of Neutrality in Wikipedia

6min

17.

The Problem With Wikipedia's Neutrality

6min

18.

The Problem With Wikipedia and the Culture of the People on It

5min

19.

The Multilinguality of the Internet

3min

20.

The Rabbit Hole of Human Rights

4min

21.

The Power of Contextual Awareness

5min

This episode is part of a mini season of RadicalxChange(s) titled A New Era of Democracy.

Lauded poet, author, and activist Anasuya Sengupta joins Matt Prewitt on this episode to discuss the culture of Wikipedia, the embedded power dynamics of digital technologies, and how plurality plays a role in empowering the global South's presence on the internet.

Links:
State of the Internet’s Languages Report | Whose Knowledge?
State of the Internet’s Languages website

Anasuya Sengupta (@anasuyashh) is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Whose Knowledge?, a global multilingual campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the minoritized majority of the world) online. She’s led initiatives across the global South, and internationally for over 20 years, to collectively create feminist presents and futures of love, justice, and liberation. She is committed to unpacking issues of power, privilege, and access, including her own as an anti-caste savarna woman. Anasuya is the former Chief Grantmaking Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation and former Regional Program Director at the Global Fund for Women. She was a 2017 Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow and received a 2018 Internet and Society award from the Oxford Internet Institute. She is on the Scholars’ Council for UCLA’s Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, and the advisory committee for MIT’s Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship (CREOS).

Matt Prewitt (@m_t_prewitt) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.

Credits

Originally produced by Aaron Benavides for 2021 RxC Annual Conference RxC TV program.
Produced by G. Angela Corpus, Jennifer Morone, and Matt Prewitt.
Co-Produced and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

This is a RadicalxChange Production.

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Credits:

Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
Co-Produced, Edited, and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.
Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)