Why Google’s Ad Business Could Implode w/ Tim Hwang
Paris Marx is joined by Tim Hwang to discuss how digital ad markets became financialized, why Google and Facebook have an incentive to hide how poorly digital ads actually work, and how a financial bu...
15 Loka 202041min
Silicon Valley is Embracing Anti-China Nationalism w/ JS Tan
Paris Marx is joined by JS Tan to discuss the internet’s connection with neoliberalism, China’s protectionist measures to develop its own tech industry, and how the new tensions between the United Sta...
8 Loka 202034min
Major Publishers Want to Shut Down Digital Lending w/ Maria Bustillos
Paris Marx is joined by Maria Bustillos to discuss the important work of the Internet Archive, why it opened a digital National Emergency Library during the pandemic, how access to culture is essentia...
1 Loka 202045min
How Google & Facebook Dominate Digital Ads w/ Shoshana Wodinsky
Paris Marx is joined by Shoshana Wodinsky to discuss how digital ad markets work, how Google and Facebook maintain their dominance, and why the TikTok saga wasn’t really about China getting people’s d...
24 Syys 202038min
How Foxconn Treats the Workers Who Built Your iPhone w/ Jenny Chan
Paris Marx is joined by Jenny Chan to discuss the difficult lives of Foxconn factory workers, the company’s relationship with Apple, the structural roadblocks to better working conditions, and how Chi...
17 Syys 202050min
A Better Internet Requires Ending the Monopolies w/ Cory Doctorow
Paris Marx is joined by Cory Doctorow to discuss how the problems we associate with Big Tech aren’t the result of mind-control systems, but corporation consolidation. Cory argues we need to stop buyin...
10 Syys 202050min
Thinking about Tech in the Present Tense w/ Ben Tarnoff
Paris Marx is joined by Ben Tarnoff to discuss why we should look to the Luddites for inspiration, how history could inform a better future of technology, and what tech organizing might look like unde...
3 Syys 202044min
We Can’t Talk About Tech Without Talking About Resources w/ Thea Riofrancos
Paris Marx is joined by Thea Riofrancos to discuss why we should care about the supply chains of technology, what that resource extraction means for people in Latin America, and how we should think ab...
27 Elo 202052min
