Unbuffered explores Internet access, digital equity, and local technology solutions, but with a broader lens on how tech shapes our lives, our communities, and our sense of agency. We make technology and technology makes us.
Unbuffered focuses on Internet access and connectivity technology – how does it encourage or discourage local self-reliance? With interviews and occasional live panel discussions, Unbuffered explores the ways technology interacts with our communities and our agency as citizens of an open society. It digs deep into how technologies actually work and how laws and policies interact with tech in the real world to shape our lives. This is ILSR’s longest-running show, originally called Community Broadband Bits.
As ownership caps fall and mega-mergers unite giant media studios, what happens to the future of real journalism? Chris sits down with Free Press’s Matt Wood and tech journalist Karl Bode to unpack how media consolidation fuels “enshittification” and erodes local news.
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As ownership caps fall and mega-mergers unite giant media studios, what happens to the future of real journalism?
Are broadcast license threats being weaponized to silence free speech? Chris, Gigi Sohn, and Berin Szóka unpack Disney’s landmark lawsuit against the FCC.
In this episode of Unbuffered, Chris and Sean break down the flawed realities behind national broadband data and policy.
Chris and Doug Dawson break down new Ookla FWA data, critique the FCC’s flawed mapping challenges, examine the final BEAD funding numbers, and tackle the...