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

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Margaret continues talking 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

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.5	In sitcoms, when someone has a problem, they just blurt it out and move on.
0:09.0	Well, I lost my job and my parakeet is missing. How is your day?
0:15.3	But the real world is different. Managing life's challenges can be overwhelming.
0:19.6	So, what do we do? We get support.
0:22.0	The Huntsman Mental Health Institute and the Ad Council have mental health resources available for
0:26.3	you at loveyourmindtay.org. That's loveyourmindtay.org. See how much further you can go when you
0:32.6	take care of your mental health. Adventure should never come with a pause button. Remember Movie Pass?
0:38.5	All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks?
0:41.2	I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.
0:44.0	And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.
0:47.4	Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of Movie Pass, who got pushed out of the company he built.
0:52.8	Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.
0:57.5	And then boom, it's everywhere.
0:59.4	And that was that moment.
1:00.8	Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHurt Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.
1:06.9	Cool Zone Media.
1:09.2	Hello and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff, your Wednesday episode where you've already heard me introduce the guest and the episode topic.
1:18.1	I am your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and my guest is Sarah Marshall.
1:23.0	Hello.
1:24.0	How are you?
1:24.8	I'm so good.
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