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There Are No Girls on the Internet

Amanda Knox asks: Who gets to own their story? — Best of TANGOTI

There Are No Girls on the Internet

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Technology

4.4820 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

After being falsely accused of murder in a global scandal screamed from tabloid headlines, these days exoneree, activist, mom, and host of the podcast Labyrinths Amanda Knox spends her time imagining a healthier media landscape.

Check out the work Amanda does alongside her husband Chris: https://www.knoxrobinson.com

Read Amanda's Medium piece, Who Owns My Name: https://amandamarieknox.medium.com/who-owns-my-name-93561f83e502

Amanda and Chris' podcast Labyrinths is very good, but this episode is my favorite: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-half-life-of-prejudice-malcolm-gladwell/id1494368441?i=1000497457213

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0:00.0

Your whole job is to be about, like, empathizing with the human experience enough to be able to tell a story that resonates with people.

0:07.7

And yet, like, here's a real human being going, like, hey, hey, I'm over here.

0:16.3

Call me.

0:17.5

And, no.

0:18.2

DEMs are open.

0:19.5

DEMs are open.

0:20.7

Like. Yeah. me and no. DEMs are open. DEMs are open.

0:21.1

Like,

0:24.1

There are no girls on the internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed

0:31.5

Creative.

0:36.1

I'm Bridget Todd, and this is there are no girls on the internet.

0:41.2

I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the internet and how we show up on it.

0:46.4

Can we share parts of ourselves online? What gets lost? By now you know the drill that nobody's online presence tells the full story of who they are.

0:53.8

We're all creating a digital highlight reel, and none of it is really real.

0:57.7

But what about the ways the Internet itself blatens out who we are, and the full scope of our humanity?

1:04.7

When you're viewing them through a screen, it's easy to see people as one-dimensional caricatures,

1:09.9

distortions of who they really are.

1:12.0

And if you think about your own online experience, I'm sure you felt this one way or another.

1:16.8

Now, imagine what that would be like as an exonerate, exonerated for a high-profile crime, of which you were falsely accused.

1:25.1

That's Amanda Knox's reality.

1:30.8

Amanda Knox's name is still synonymous with a crime that she did not commit, the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kircher, by Rudy Goudet in Italy in 2007.

1:37.4

Amanda spent almost four years in prison before being acquitted in 2015. Since her release from prison,

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