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SUMMARY:OII 25th Anniversary Public Lecture. Dreaming of a Networked World
 : Reflections on the Political Economy of the Internet
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DESCRIPTION:2026 marks 25 years of the Oxford Internet Institute. To celeb
 rate this milestone\, we’re holding a series of events throughout the ye
 ar. We invite you to join our celebrations on the 15th June for this lectu
 re and drinks reception.\n\nAbstract\nIt’s easy to scoff at Facebook’s
  old mission to “connect the world\,” but the stark reality is that ma
 ny of us genuinely believed that the internet could be used to empower eve
 ryday people in new and uplifting ways. We were hopeful. We were also naiv
 e. We were focused on what youth and hobbyists and activists were doing wi
 th the new tool at their disposal. We weren’t attending to how the rich 
 and powerful were limiting which futures were possible in order to ensure 
 that their desired futures were inevitable.\n\nSociotechnical futures are 
 never inevitable. Many people have leveraged the internet to do things tha
 t strengthen humanity. And yet\, there is little doubt that parts of the i
 nternet are now a toxic dumpster fire. As we watch a new and powerful tech
 nology emerge and gobble up the internet\, we are once again forced to rec
 kon with how political and economic forces interact to configure futures. 
 What AI will become is still unknown\, but whether it is primarily a benev
 olent or malignant force depends on choices we make today.\n\nIn this talk
 \, danah will weave through internet pasts\, presents\, and future to shed
  light on the good\, bad\, and ugly so that we may leverage our knowledge 
 of what happened in pursuit of a more just and generous future.\n\n \n\nSc
 hedule\n5:15-5:25pm: Arrival\n\n5:30-6:30pm: Lecture and Q&A\n\n6:30-7:30p
 m: Drinks Reception\n\n \n\nAbout the Speaker\ndanah boyd is the Geri Gay 
 Professor of Communication at Cornell University. Her research focuses on 
 the intersection of technology and society\, with an eye towards how struc
 tural inequities shape and are shaped by sociotechnical systems.\n\nHer up
 coming book “Data are Made\, Not Found: A Story of Politics\, Power\, an
 d the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census” is an ethnography of the U
 S Census Bureau\, Jenga politics\, and the struggle to make democracy’s 
 data. She has also conducted research on media manipulation\, privacy prac
 tices\, social media\, and teen culture. Her monograph “It’s Complicat
 ed: The Social Lives of Networked Teens” has received widespread praise.
 \n\nShe founded the research institute Data & Society\, where she currentl
 y serves as an advisor. She is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at 
 Georgetown University\, a fellow of AAAS\, a non-residential fellow at the
  Center for Democracy and Technology\, a trustee of the Computer History M
 useum\, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, and on the advisory
  board of Electronic Privacy Information Center. Previously\, she worked a
 t Microsoft Research. She received a bachelor’s degree in computer scien
 ce from Brown University\, a master’s degree from the MIT Media Lab\, an
 d a Ph.D in Information from the University of California\, Berkeley.\n\nd
 anah’s new book Data Are Made\, Not Found. A Story of Politics\, Power\,
  and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census\, will publish in Septembe
 r 2026.\n\nBlog: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/\nTwitter: @zephoria
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LOCATION:Mathematical Institute - L2\, L2 Mathematical Institute Woodstock
  Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 6GG United Kingdom
SPEAKER:danah boyd
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