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Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now
Join Tim Wu (“The Age of Extraction”) and Cory Doctorow (“Enshittification”), two internet activists who’ve been friends since they were small children, for a lively, infuriating and invigorating exploration of the forces that drove the internet to its current miserable state, and a prescription for taking it back and making a new, good internet that is fit for purpose: serving as the digital nervous system of a planetary civilization under dire threat from the climate emergency, genocide, authoritarianism and fascism.
Date:
14 November 2025, 17:30
Venue:
Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square OX1 2JA
Venue Details:
Lecture Theatre or Zoom
Speakers:
Cory Doctorow,
Prof Timothy Wu (Columbia Law School)
Organising department:
Oxford Internet Institute
Organiser:
Ellen Mobbs (Oxford Internet Institute)
Organiser contact email address:
events@oii.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events/enshittification-and-extraction-the-internet-sucks-now/
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Ellen Mobbs
