For this week's episode I spoke to Dr. Emaline Friedman (@emalinus4). She is a network activist for the Commons Engine, part of Holochain, a social critic and theorist, has a PhD in psychology, a writer for Mad In America, a researcher at GCAS, and author of the recent book Internet Addiction: A Critical Psychology of Users.

During the interview we talk about her research for her new book around moral panic about the internet, how that is closely linked to data sovereignty, and how it all brought her to working with Holochain and the Commons Engine. Emaline believes that we can remedy issues in mental health through participatory, p2p, and commons-oriented technologies and end up addressing a lot of the left/progressive agenda at the same time.

Sources
Emaline's Site
Solidarity Club
Commons Engine
Holochain

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ICYMI I've written a book about, no surprise, blockchains through a left political framework! The title is Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It and is being published through Repeater Books, the publishing house started by Mark Fisher who’s work influenced me a lot in my thinking.

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Moral Panic! about the Internet? Try data sovereignty