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On the Media

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4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Are the women-led protests in Iran powerful enough to force change when past attempts have failed? On this week’s On the Media, a look at the moments that ignite movements, both online and in the streets. Plus, how silly videos built one of the largest media companies in the world, and the story of how one Twitch streamer successfully took down an army of harassers.

1. Fatemeh Shams [@ShazzShams], poet and professor of Persian literature at the University of Pennsylvania, on how the recent wave of protests in Iran differs from previous movements. Listen.

2. Ben Collins [@oneunderscore__], senior reporter for NBC, on how a famous Twitch streamer got an online forum taken down. Listen.

3. Mark Bergen [@mhbergen], journalist and author of Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination, on how YouTube transformed from a dating site to an essential part of society. Listen.

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0:00.0	People come to the street and make bone fires with veils.
0:03.5	That is not just a political and religious table,
0:06.8	it's also a cultural table.
0:08.7	But when international coverage frames the protests
0:11.9	in Iran as simply anti-Hijab, it misses the point.
0:16.3	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:19.2	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:20.9	Also this week, how a toxic internet forum terrorized folks
0:25.6	by mining their freely available data and hounding them on and off line.
0:31.6	Those places can exist and be armies.
0:34.2	And then the speech of regular people in this country,
0:38.0	citizens of this country, is quashed because they can't fight the army.
0:43.7	Plus the once-and-future YouTube.
0:46.4	This is how I start my makeup routine.
0:48.2	Sometimes I fluff my eyebrows, I pick at my skin first.
0:50.6	I don't know why, too, but we're going to skip that one.
0:52.8	From silly videos to total media domination.
0:56.4	It's all coming up after this.
1:00.4	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:03.7	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:05.2	Michael Lohinger is joining me this week.
1:08.0	But first, this.
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