Hacknight #223

IndieWeb: Empowering individuals through collective design

with Jack Jamieson

How can we work toward a future Internet that is egalitarian and empowering? Jack Jamieson tackles this question in a presentation about the IndieWeb. The IndieWeb is a community of individual websites, connected together as an alternative to corporate platforms. This talk will discuss IndieWeb's creators inscribe their values into a large heterogeneous system.

Speakers

Jack Jamieson

Jack Jamieson is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. His research is concerned with values, labour, and interoperability in emerging Web technologies.