Promotional graphic for a Data & Society online book talk. On a teal background, large white text reads: “WHAT IF WE COULD REBUILD THE INTERNET?” Above it: “DATA & SOCIETY – ONLINE BOOK TALK.” At the bottom: “MAY 7, 2026.” On the right side is the book cover *Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up* by Britt S. Paris, featuring a grayscale map-style background with a black title box and a turquoise nameplate at the bottom.
6:45 am on April 23, 2026 · 2026 (278), book discussion (6), data & society (5), infrastructure (23)

POSTPONED – What If We Could Rebuild the Internet?

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Promotional graphic for a Data & Society online book talk. On a teal background, large white text reads: “WHAT IF WE COULD REBUILD THE INTERNET?” Above it: “DATA & SOCIETY – ONLINE BOOK TALK.” At the bottom: “MAY 7, 2026.” On the right side is the book cover *Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up* by Britt S. Paris, featuring a grayscale map-style background with a black title box and a turquoise nameplate at the bottom.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED | PERMALINK

On Thursday May 7, 2026 Data & Society had planned to host a book talk ‘What If We Could Rebuild the Internet?‘.

If we could start from scratch, how might we rebuild or reimagine the internet to be more just and equitable? In her new book Radical Infrastructures: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up, Rutgers Associate Professor Britt Paris critically examines and contextualizes the promises, utility, and obstacles to building a completely new internet. Drawing from eight years of interviews, site visits, and document and policy analysis, she examines ongoing alternative internet infrastructure projects and contrasts them with the market-driven solutions that drive the internet’s development today. in a conversation with Mizue Aizeki, executive director of the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience, moderated by D&S postdoctoral fellow Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes, Paris will reflect on the pitfalls and opportunities of existing internet infrastructure, and explore what it will take to develop and maintain a people-centered internet.

SPEAKERS
Britt Paris – Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University
Mizue Aizeki – Founder / Executive Director, Collaborative Research Center for Resilience (CRCR)

HOST / MODERATOR
Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes – Postdoctoral Fellow , Trustworthy Infrastructures, Data & Society

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