Behind the News: A Social History of the Internet w/ Taylor Lorenz

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🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Lisa Corrigan, author of a recent Nation article, explains what the savage cuts at West Virginia University mean for higher ed. Taylor Lorenz, author of Extremely Online, discusses the social history of the internet.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online.

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0:00.0	.
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0:28.0	.
0:33.0	Hello and welcome to Behind the News, my name is Doug Henrywood.
0:36.0	The divinely commanded two segments today.
0:38.0	Lisa Corgan will talk about what she calls the engineered austerity at West Virginia University
0:43.0	and what it means for higher education generally in the U.S.
0:46.0	and then Taylor Lorenz will talk about her new book, Extremely Online,
0:50.0	A Social History of Internet Culture.
0:53.0	A couple of weeks ago, West Virginia University, the state's flagship,
0:56.0	announced deep cuts to its academic programs.
0:59.0	Majors like art history, musical composition, creative writing, foreign languages,
1:03.0	all of them.
1:04.0	Landscape architecture and PhDs in math and resource management will be no longer
1:08.0	if the administration gets its way.
1:11.0	Many other programs will be cut back, among them the English major,
1:14.0	something I take personally or merged with others.
1:17.0	These moves go beyond belt tightening.
1:19.0	They're a profound redefinition of what a major university is supposed to be about.
1:23.0	University President G. Gordon G. who holds the record for the number of institutions
1:27.0	one person has led has left behind him a trail of scandal,
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