Paying For It (the dislike club part II)
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia
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🗓️ 25 November 2014
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Our mini-series about the internet continues. This week we take a close look at the fundamental business model of the web – advertising. In 1993 your host was a founding member of an international monkey wrench gang that fought billboards in outer space. He recently ran into one of his old comrades in Midtown-South (Manhattan’s tech district) and discovered that his side actually lost the war. Ethan Zuckerman, the man who invented the pop up ad, admits that we must rethink the fundamentals of the web, and activist, writer, and filmmaker Astra Taylor questions whether the internet actually benefits independent creators.
The Dislike Club is a story-in-progress, it will play out on the podcast over the next few weeks and then culminate December 21 on Radiotonic, from ABC RN’s Creative Audio Unit.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything. |
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| 0:21.4 | fm. Thanks. Hey dear listener, it's me Benjamin Walker. I just |
| 0:26.7 | want to say a quick thank you to everyone who's already donated to support Radiotopia |
| 0:32.4 | and this show during our fall fundraiser. |
| 0:35.0 | It's always great to hear from so many of you out there in listener land who feel |
| 0:40.0 | moved and connected to support the things we make. Our fundraiser is coming to a |
| 0:46.0 | close later this month and if we reach our goal of 1,000 donors after the |
| 0:50.8 | holidays we'll share a digital zine with everyone who donated to help us get there |
| 0:55.6 | but we're still a little short. As of recording this we are still needing 160 more listeners to join the fold. If you've been on the fence or |
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| 1:27.0 | You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything. |
| 1:32.0 | This installment is called paying for it. |
| 1:35.0 | The internet promised that it would empower independent media makers like myself |
| 1:40.0 | that we would finally get out of the clutches of these this cabal of media executives. |
| 1:46.2 | And yet things aren't that different. |
| 1:48.9 | As an independent filmmaker and a writer, I don't feel that amazingly empowered. |
| 1:55.0 | Activist writer and filmmaker Astra Taylor has been championing independent thinking |
| 1:59.7 | social justice and alternative media since she was 12 years old. |
| 2:04.6 | Back then she had her own zine, care. |
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