[Linganth] Jessa Lingel on Craigslist

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Nazli Azergun interviews Jessa Lingel on her new book, An Internet for 
the People: The Politics and Promise of Craigslist
on CaMP anthropology blog.

https://campanthropology.org <https://campanthropology.org>

Best,
Ilana

The press blurb:

Begun by Craig Newmark as an e-mail to some friends about cool events 
happening around San Francisco, craigslist is now the leading 
classifieds service on the planet. It is also a throwback to the early 
internet. The website has barely seen an upgrade since it launched in 
1996. There are no banner ads. The company doesn’t profit off your 
data./An Internet for the People/explores how people use craigslist to 
buy and sell, find work, and find love—and reveals why craigslist is 
becoming a lonely outpost in an increasingly corporatized web.

Drawing on interviews with craigslist insiders and ordinary users, Jessa 
Lingel looks at the site’s history and values, showing how it has mostly 
stayed the same while the web around it has become more commercial and 
far less open. She examines craigslist’s legal history, describing the 
company’s courtroom battles over issues of freedom of expression and 
data privacy, and explains the importance of locality in the social 
relationships fostered by the site. More than an online garage sale, job 
board, or dating site, craigslist holds vital lessons for the rest of 
the web. It is a website that values user privacy over profits, ease of 
use over slick design, and an ethos of the early web that might just 
hold the key to a more open, transparent, and democratic internet.
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