# Heather Ford
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heather ford (born 6 January 1978) is a South African researcher, blogger, journalist, social entrepreneur and open source activist who has worked in the field of Internet policy, law and management in South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. She is the founder of Creative Commons South Africa. She has studied the nature of power within Wikipedia and is a researcher at the University of Leeds.
Australia and Wikipedia: The bias in the map
Wikipedia doesn't set out to play favourites. But when a made-up Melbourne suburb has more history than real Australian places, something is shaping what gets written.
Who - or what - decides which Australian places matter on Wikipedia?
Hosts Heather Ford and Francesca Sidoti go looking, through ...
Wikipedia's three big fights: What knowledge counts?
Wikipedia promised to be the sum of all human knowledge. Then the fighting started.
Host Heather Ford and writer Richard Cooke walk through three of Wikipedia's biggest fight. Not the daily edit wars over the spelling of yoghurt, but the fights over what Wikipedia is, and whose knowledge gets to ...
The 'Last Best Place on the Internet': Will Wikipedia survive AI?
In the future, will Wikipedia still be written by humans?
This episode asks what happens to that promise as two very different futures close in.
Co-host and author Richard Cooke calls Wikipedia ‘the last best place on the internet’ - one of the only things still standing from the early web's prom...
Play along: The Wikipedia quiz
Five questions. Two hosts. One deceptively simple quiz. Can Wikipedia articles really be edited by anyone? Does the site rely on your $5 donations, or is there more to the story?
Host Heather Ford goes head-to-head with guest Simon Knight in a true-or-false showdown about Wikipedia. Almost nothin...
Research and teach with Wikipedia: In the classroom and library
Every student uses Wikipedia. Some schools and teachers still tell them not to.
This episode asks why, and explains how to teach Wikipedia literacy to primary and secondary school students, instead of banning it outright.
Researchers Heather Ford and Simon Knight answer questions and hear advice ...
Live panel: Wikimedia Australia and Dr Terri Janke's guide to working with First Nations content responsibly
How can Wikipedia editors work with Indigenous content in a responsible way?
Hear a panel discussion with Indigenous lawyers Dr Terri Janke, Shavonne Wright, and Matilda Langford on the new Wikimedia Australia guide to respectful, accurate engagement with Indigenous knowledge.
Oral knowledge can'...
True Crimes in the Troubled Teen Industry: Part 1 (with Heather Ford & Jessica)
What happens when institutions that promise to protect vulnerable teenagers are given the power to isolate them, control their communication and dismiss their reports of abuse?
In Part 1 of this investigation into the troubled teen industry, the hosts are joined by guest hosts Heather Ford and Je...
True Crimes in the Troubled Teen Industry: Part 2 (with Heather Ford & Jessica)
In Part 2 of this investigation into the troubled teen industry, the hosts and guest hosts Heather Ford and Jessica engage in a wider discussion about money, celebrity influence, family trust and the systems that can make it difficult to hold abusive youth residential programs accountable.
Follow...
All That We Touch... at the pub
Welcome to the party!
In this episode, recorded live at in Chippendale, at the Abercrombie Hotel, we officially launch All That We Touch.
You'll hear two lively conversations.
In the first, Monica Attard from UTS's Centre for Media Transition speaks with researcher Heather Ford and writer Richard...
The Death of the Pastor's Wife: Mica Miller
In April 2024, 30-year-old Mica Miller was found dead at Lumber River State Park in North Carolina. In the months before she died, Mica had reported stalking, harassment, discovered GPS trackers on her vehicle, filed for separation and sought a restraining order against her husband, South Carolin...
