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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Dear Colleagues,<br>
Nazli Azergun interviews Jessa Lingel on her new book, An Internet
for the People: The Politics and Promise of Craigslist<br>
on CaMP anthropology blog.<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://campanthropology.org">https://campanthropology.org</a><br>
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Best,<br>
Ilana<br>
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The press blurb:<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="color:
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initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">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
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People</i><span style="color: rgb(46, 46, 46); font-family:
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!important; float: none;"><span> </span>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.</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit;
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<span style="color: rgb(46, 46, 46); font-family: PlantinMTPro,
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!important; float: none;">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.</span></font>
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