Part One: Indymedia: How Lefty Techies and Journalists Reinvented the Internet

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Margaret talks to Sarah Marshall about the Independent Media Centers that helped protesters build movements and changed how online communication happens.

Sources:

https://daily.jstor.org/the-invention-of-journalistic-objectivity/

https://daily.jstor.org/to-fix-fake-news-look-to-yellow-journalism/

https://web.archive.org/web/20200304071058/http://www.infoshop.org/about-us/

https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3485447.3512282#fig3

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0163443720926039

https://www.academia.edu/21814073/Indymedia_Journalism_A_Radical_Way_of_Making_Selecting_and_Sharing_News

https://www.academia.edu/45052617/Indymedia_and_Media_Activism_at_the_Turn_of_the_Millennium

https://crimethinc.com/2017/08/25/german-government-shuts-down-indymedia-what-it-means-and-what-to-do

https://crimethinc.com/2022/10/28/the-billionaire-and-the-anarchists-tracing-twitter-from-its-roots-as-a-protest-tool-to-elon-musks-acquisition

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2022/09/11/jack-dorseys-former-boss-is-building-a-decentralized-twitter/

https://libcom.org/article/sources-and-police-raid-bristol-indymedia

https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/local-news-indymedia-network-25-anniversary.php

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