Provocations, Web Dynamics & Echo Chambers: An Interview with Alice Thwaite

This article was originally published on Wonk Bridge

There will come a time when Alice Thwaite will need no introduction.

One of Europe’s leading tech ethicists, and the founder and editor of the Echo Chamber Club, Thwaite has worked her way up into a position of prominence in continental and indeed global discussions of web dynamics, data ethics, the nature of echo chambers, and how exactly we might go about securing the future of pluralism in a web culture that is in seemingly unending petty conflict.

Thwaite is a frequent speaker on the topics of internet ethics and information access in a digital age, at events large and small worldwide. She has been a guest on BBC and Al-Jazeera. When she isn’t chairing provocations with the ECC, she can be found writing for the likes of Tortoise Media, Quartz and politics.co.uk. She joined us on a damp Newspeak House terrace in February of 2020 to talk about her work with the Echo Chamber Club, her philosophy of agonistic disagreement, and how the changes we’re dealing with neither have come from, nor will be solved only by, technology.

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