Jonathan Taplin

Podcast #28: Jonathan Taplin on Internet Aggregators

Jonathan Taplin, former music and film professional, tells first-hand what the new rentier economy of Internet aggregators like Google and Facebook has done to the creative arts, journalism, and democracy.

By Mo Lotman | March 13, 2019 | Advertising, Culture, Economics, Journalism, Law, Media, Podcasts, Politics, Society | Addiction, Advertising, Amazon, Annenberg Innovation Lab, Antitrust, Art, Automation, Bing, Bodycams, Cambridge Analytica, Campaign Finance, China, Civil War, Consumers, Copyright, Creative Fields, Decentralization, Democracy, Digitization, Dystopia, Eric Garcetti, Europe, Fake News, Federal Government, GDPR, Google Facebook, Head Tax, Infrastructure, Internet, Jeff Bezos, John Seely Brown, Journalism, LA Times, Larry Page, Law, Levon Helm, Local News, Localism, Mark Zuckerberg, Martin Luther King, Middle Class, Musicians, New York Times, Newspapers, Parking Apps, Peter Thiel, Photography, Privacy, Producers, Recommendations, Record Business, Robert Bork, Roger McNamee, Royalties, Safe Harbor, Search Engine, Social Credit, Social Networking, State Politics, surveillance, The Band, The Last Waltz, The Weight, Throat Cancer, Tim Berners-Lee, Tristan Harris, Vint Cerf, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Watchdog Role, Winner-Take-All, Yelp, YouTube

Zines

Zines Keep it Real, Defying Digital Trends

The culture of zines, those xeroxed, do-it-yourself pamphlets, goes back decades. Instead of dying with the Internet, it’s as strong as ever.

By Lucy Uprichard | September 27, 2017 | Community, Culture, Journalism, Media, Publishing | Art, Associated Press, Broken Pencil, DIY, Expression, Fairs, Fashion Monitor, Independent Press, Internet, Magazines, New York Times, Pamphlets, Print Media, Publishing, Punks, Radicals, Washington Post, Zines

We Have a Loser: How Polling Undermines Democracy

The first article in an occasional series about prediction. Though it seems ages ago, this month, Senator Ted Cruz ended [...]

By Mo Lotman | May 25, 2016 | Journalism, Media, Politics, Prediction | Bernie Sanders, Boston Globe, CNN, Democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, Elections, Hilary Clinton, Minority Viewpoints, New York Times, Opinion, Polls, Primaries, Republican, Republican Revolution, Supression, Ted Cruz, Turnout

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