This was an excellent listen. Great for understanding Italian digital politics, which has lessons for where US politics is headed.
Also appreciated the focus on the human dimension of doing politics in an era with all the promise and perils of network platforms.
Also appreciated the focus on the human dimension of doing politics in an era with all the promise and perils of network platforms.
https://twitter.com/paologerbaudo/status/1357685526590066697
On a human level, it was great to catch up with @paologerbaudo's work. I randomly met him when he was an undergrad in Cuneo almost 20 years, when I was a grad student. He and Irene Peano showed us DC punx a great time in their hometown. 
As it happens, this was just months after I first met @DanielDenvir, then a teenager. We were all involved in the global justice movement, which Paolo wanted to hear all about.
As I recall, he met my buddy and me in Turin later in our trip to show us the Shroud of Turin and pump us for movement deets. We were like, dude, we have lots to learn from you!
nytimes.com/2001/07/21/wor…
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Fast forward a decade, and that intrepid undergrad had lapped us - gotten a PhD and was a scholar of populism and this thing called the Internet that had become a lot more than just Indymedia. I continue to learn a lot from his work.
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amazon.com/Tweets-Streets…
The photos from that trip (like the one above) are some of my favorite. We went to Rome to join the anti-Iraq War protests, and stopped by the Trevi Fountain. Can't wait to be able to leave the house again!
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