Exploring four tensions of online public safety at the 2021 New_ Public Festival
Channel: New_ Public
Date: 2023-09-01

About the facilitator:

Krista Tippett is a journalist, author, and the creator of On Being.

About the panelists:

Katherine Maher is Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation.

J. Nathan Matias is an assistant professor at Cornell University and the founder of the Citizens and Technology Lab, or CATLab.

Eve Pearlman is a journalistic innovator and co-founder of Spaceship Media.

John Samples is a Vice President at Cato Institute and a member of the Facebook Oversight Board.

Anasuya Sengupta is a poet, author, and the co-founder of WhoseKnowledge.org.

About the video:

This video is an excerpt from a Zoom meeting recorded on January 13, 2021.

Full transcript available: https://www.are.na/newpublic/festival-2021

This excerpt belongs to the ""Productive Frictions"" neighborhood of the festival program.

The ""Productive Frictions"" neighborhood features dynamic conversations with unlikely partners that address core arguments, challenges, and opportunities to create a better internet.

About the festival:

The New_ Public Festival explores and demonstrates the principles of productive and healthy virtual space.

Through unique interfaces, experiential elements, different conversation formats, and brilliant thinkers from a number of disciplines, the New_ Public Festival seeds a dialogue about the history and transformation of public space, amplifies current seeds of inspiration, and collectively imagines ways we might build more vital public spaces online.

Visit newpublic.org/festival for more information.

About the host:

New_ Public is bringing together community experts, technologists, designers, futurists, and civic entrepreneurs to build digital public spaces for everyone.

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