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![]() My parents were university professors, so I have a dim memory of text-based chat rooms in the early ‘90s, pre-AOL, and the amazingness of exchanging stilted public posts with some people who identified themselves as soccer players in Italy. What was the first online community you engaged with? And the public spaces would be shadier and safer. With my new book “The Stolen Year” I’m exploring the idea that we need to build a child-centric society - such a society would value care adequately and would be more compassionate, prescient and interdependent. I started calling the common thread of what I do generational justice. What can you not stop talking about on the internet right now? Google Drive, where the actual work takes place. What is the one tab you always regret closing? You knew about Frank O’Hara getting run over by a dune buggy, but did you know that Auden visited and wrote a poem called Pleasure Island? And Claude Levi-Strauss, the French theorist? This summer I went down a rabbit hole on the amazing literary history of Fire Island where we take an annual family vacation. What is an internet deep dive that you can’t wait to jump back into? I spend the most time on Twitter where I have my education people, my climate people and current and former colleagues ( and Raffi). What is your favorite corner of the internet? Anya talks about what she’s currently reading, using pre-AOL chat rooms in the ‘90s and why she’s hopeful about how kids these days are using technology. She’s the author of the new book “The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children’s Lives, And Where We Go Now” and serves as an advisor to the Aspen Institute on a new initiative to end climate silence in children’s media. This month we chat with Anya Kamenetz, who, until recently, covered education for NPR. ![]() In My Corner Of The Internet, we talk with people about the online spaces they can’t get enough of, what we should save in Pocket to read later, and what sites and forums shaped them. ![]() We all have an internet story worth sharing. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for people to connect with others, and lets everyone find where they belong - their corners of the internet. ![]() Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn’t perfect, but we are also quick to point out that the internet is pretty darn magical. ![]()
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