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Cory Doctorow on Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

Cory Doctorow on Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

Update: 2025-11-17
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In this special livestream edition of Peoples & Things, host Lee Vinsel and very special guest host, danah boyd, formerly of Microsoft Research, presently Geri Gay Professor of Communication at Cornell University, chat with writer and activist, Cory Doctorow, about his new book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. The book tracks how and why companies degrade their digital platforms and products and argues especially for the role that monopoly power plays in this phenomenon. Vinsel, boyd, and Doctorow talk about many different dimensions of these processes and go down various joyful rabbitholes, too, including our present AI bubble.

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Cory Doctorow on Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

Cory Doctorow on Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

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