# Event Details - **Event Name**: Cory Doctorow, author of “Enshittification” - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: Why has the online public square become a place of torment?About this EventMany of the frustrations of being online today—harassment, surveillance, misinformation, and the general sense of dysfunction—are not defects, but chosen outcomes of major platforms. As Cory Doctorow argues, large tech companies tend to lure users in, monetize their participation, and then squeeze both users and workers once alternatives have disappeared. The result is an internet organized around extraction rather than connection. Doctorow calls us to confront the outsized power of a handful of firms and strengthen the capacity of workers and regulators to push back.Doctorow will be in conversation with , Professor of English at the University of Utah.A book-signing with will follow the event.Reviews“The Age of Enshittification” — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker“A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech” — Joseph Bernstein, The New York Times“Why the Internet Is Turning to Shit” — Alex Skopic, Current AffairsInterview by Amy Goodman — Democracy NowCory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His nonfiction books include The Internet Con and Chokepoint Capitalism. He has received the Arthur C. Clarke Imagination in Service to Society Award and the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity.Doctorow has also been an activist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He co-founded the UK Open Rights Group and holds visiting appointments at the Open University, MIT, Cornell, and the University of North Carolina. 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