Cory Doctorow: Enshittification: BC Libraries Present virtual author talk group livestream

Bring your lunch and join us in the New West Library Event Space for a group viewing as we livestream Cory Doctorow: Enshittification, a BC Libraries Present virtual author talk with author and journalist Cory Doctorow.

In November 2022, Cory Doctorow coined the term "enshittification" to describe the decay of digital platforms as the owners prioritize profit over the experience of their users. Cory's argument clearly resonated and helped people realize that enshittification is everywhere, creeping into many of the services that we now rely on—so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and it was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of the popular dystopic TV series Black Mirror.

Cory Doctorow will discuss his highly anticipated new book Enshittification with public policy expert Vass Bednar, to help us understand why Big Tech is the way it is, and how we can disenshittify the internet.

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