In Conversation: Enshittification

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Cory Doctorow and Carole Cadwalladr on how can we fix the Internet.

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Has life online got worse? Tech critic, science fiction writer and podcaster Cory Doctorow thinks so and coined the term ‘enshittification’ to describe the experience.His new book Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to do About it sets out to show how we can reclaim the internet. He will be in conversation with Carole Cadwalladr the award-winning investigative journalist who uncovered the Cambridge Analytica scandal that shifted the world’s understanding of Silicon Valley and most recently co-founded the new digital title the Nerve (thenerve.news)

Cory Doctorow is a Canadian, British, American blogger, journalist and activist. He is the author of over 30 books. He lives in Burbank, California.

Carole Cadwalladr is an investigative journalist who worked for two decades as a feature writer at the Guardian &amp; Observer. For her reporting on the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal she was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

<a href="https://www.thenerve.news/" title="https://www.thenerve.news/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Nerve</a> Launched at the very end of September by five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr. They are a female-founded, independent title that cover culture, potitics, tech. <a href="https://www.thenerve.news/" title="https://www.thenerve.news/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Here</a> is the site. Also please find two pieces about 'THE NERVE' <a href="https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-observer-big-hitters-launch-new-title-with-redundancy-payouts/" title="https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-observer-big-hitters-launch-new-title-with-redundancy-payouts/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Here.</a> &amp; <a href="https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/new-launch-from-ex-observer-staff-nears-1000-paying-subscribers-in-a-week/" title="https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/new-launch-from-ex-observer-staff-nears-1000-paying-subscribers-in-a-week/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

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