Thanks to the Sydney Science Festival and the event organisers UNSW's Centre for Ideas Thanks to sound engineer Mark Don, who retires from Radio National this year after bringing you 1000s upon 1000s of hours of beautiful music recordings, radio features, podcasts and documentaries over the decades. Sandy Aung Engineering student President, Robogals UNSW Ginger Gorman Author of Troll Hunting: Inside the World of Online Hate and Its Human Fallout Hardie Grant Books, 2018)Īlexandra Zafiroglu Professor of Cybernetics 3A Institute Australian National University Tune into Claire’s lecture and this Science Friction extended podcast features the discussion hosted by Natasha Mitchell with Claire L Evans, journalist and cybertroll hunter Ginger Gorman, cultural anthropologist and Professor of Cybernetics Alexandra Zafiroglu, and engineering student and Robogals president, Sandy Aung.Ĭlaire L Evans Author of Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet Penguin Putnam Inc, 2019 Her eye-opening book Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet challenges the assumption that the history of computing is a story of men and their machines, from Ada Lovelace, who wrote the instructions for the first computer program 100 years before the first computer, and onwards. Evans finally gives these unsung female heroes their due with her insightful social history of the Broad Band, the women who made the internet what it is today. When author, VICE reporter, and musician with the pop group YACHT, Claire L Evans, was a girl the internet always felt like home. VICE reporter and YACHT lead singer Claire L. Claire L Evans is author of Broad Band - the Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet ( Prudence Upton (supplied))
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