What Kind of Place is the Internet?

Producer Georgia Hampton looks to writer and blogger Katherine Dee and academic Charles Soukop to help her figure out how to visualize the internet. As in, what kind of a place is it, if it’s even a space at all?
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Find Charles Soukop:
• Charles’s 2006 study on virtual third places (journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/146144480…)
Find Katherine Dee:

• default.blog

• NYT: The phone as a portal to the Otherworld (nytimes.com/2025/11/28/opinion/internet-phones…)

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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.
Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia