Dr. Joan Donavan, research director of Harvard’s Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics & Public Policy and coauthor of the new book Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America, charts how the impact of GamerGate is still shaping our political landscape today. 

Check out Dr. Donavan’s book MEME WARS: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/meme-wars-9781635578638/

Dr. Joan Donavan, research director of Harvard’s Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics &amp; Public Policy and coauthor of the new book Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America, charts how the impact of GamerGate is still shaping our political landscape today. 
Check out Dr. Donavan’s book MEME WARS: <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/meme-wars-9781635578638/">https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/meme-wars-9781635578638/</a>

Bridget Todd explains how bad actors use the internet to target and silence marginalized people, especially Black women. Excluding them from discourse and desensitizing us to sexist, racist attacks makes us all less safe. Bridget talks with people who have been the targets of coordinated attacks, activists who are fighting back, and experts to help break down the deliberate agenda behind it.

Bridget Todd explains how bad actors use the internet to target and silence marginalized people, especially Black women. Excluding them from discourse and desensitizing us to sexist, racist attacks makes us all less safe. Bridget talks with people who have been the targets of coordinated attacks, activists who are fighting back, and experts to help break down the deliberate agenda behind it.

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Bonus Episode - Pelosi’s Attacker Credits GamerGate with His Radicalization

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/764848c0-8982-41b0-b4d2-af4301886470/transcript