Reimagining the Internet
March 2021 • The Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure
We’re incredibly excited to have Charlton McIlwain join us for an interview about the history of the Black Internet and his book “Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter.” As a professor in NYU’s Media, Culture, and Communications department, Charlton has studied Black spaces on the internet from the dial-up days through Black Lives Matter. At a time when so much of online culture is indebted to Black culture, Charlton asks us to imagine what it might look like for the Internet to once again be Black.
For links to projects mentioned in this episode and a full transcript of the interview, visit https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/19-charlton-mcilwain/
