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Whether we like it or not, the internet has remade modern life. And we have to talk about how abuses of power and lack of accountability proliferate across the social media, technology, and entertainment landscapes.

On today’s show, host Sara Gabler is in conversation with journalist David Wolinsky about video games, misogyny, and his new book The Hivemind Swarmed:Conversations on Gamergate, the Aftermath, and the Quest for a Safer Internet. The book looks at a specific online harassment campaign called Gamergate that started in 2014 and has shaped how people behave online and in real life since. 

David Wolinsky is an independent oral historian, a documentary researcher, and an author based in Chicago. Previously, he served as an editor at The Onion and NBC. Since 2014, he has conducted more than 600 interviews on the social impact of the Internet for his interview series Don’t Die, which is preserved by Stanford University. He is a recipient of the New York Videogame Critics Circle’s Journalism Award and the MIT Open Documentary Lab’s mentorship.

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