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ENCORE: Lessons from the Luddites for the digital age
What an 1800s labor rebellion can teach us about surviving Big Tech, with Brian Merchant
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Emilie Friedlander
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Andrea Domanick
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Brian Merchant
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The decline of the digital third space, with Ruby Justice Thelot
Remembering Checkpoints, an obscure YouTube phenomenon that can teach us a lot about the importance, and fragility, of online community spaces.
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Emilie Friedlander
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Andrea Domanick
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Ruby Justice Thelot
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Chronicling the early days of social media, with Taylor Lorenz
How MySpace scene queens and mommy bloggers laid the foundation for a $250 billion creator economy
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Andrea Domanick
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Has music journalism lost its way?
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Is A.I. good or bad for art?
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Towards a unified theory of the girlboss, with TrueAnon's Liz Franczak
 • Emilie Friedlander, Andrea Domanick, and Liz
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Digital media's pivot to nothingness
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Towards a unified theory of the girlboss, with TrueAnon's Liz Franczak
Unravelling how the girlboss became the lazy girl job while society fell apart
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Emilie Friedlander
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Andrea Domanick
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Liz
1:23:47
A survey of post-pandemic nightlife, with Shawn Reynaldo
The rise of the DJ-as-influencer, the Boiler Roomification of club culture, and how internet swallowed nightlife whole
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Emilie Friedlander
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Shawn Reynaldo
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Andrea Domanick
1:05:32
Bringing back hyper-local media with Hell Gate
How alt-weekly vibes help us touch grass, with Adlan Jackson and Katie Way
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Andrea Domanick
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Adlan
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Emilie Friedlander
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MrBeast lays bare how the internet really works
Max Read on how the world’s biggest YouTuber became one with the algorithm
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Emilie Friedlander
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Andrea Domanick
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Max Read
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There's a lot of ways to lose your house
Investigating "hot labor summer" as a mood
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Emilie Friedlander
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Andrea Domanick
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Inside the VICE bankruptcy files
An emergency pod from our friends at Nersey
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Emilie Friedlander
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drew millard
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Slava P
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Trey Smith
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Jobflation is real
Why every job is actually three jobs now
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Emilie Friedlander
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Andrea Domanick
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Anatomy of a scene
Exploring the hidden musical geography of New York City, with Jesse Rifkin
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Andrea Domanick
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Emilie Friedlander
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Jesse Rifkin
Offline Recs: Subterranean silos, bad waitresses, music geographies
Plus, coffee hacks, Nostradamic mathematicians, stunt food wars, and more.
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Andrea Domanick
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Emilie Friedlander
The Culture Journalist
The Culture Journalist
A podcast about the shadowy and powerful forces lurking beneath the surface of culture and the media, with Emilie Friedlander and Andrea Domanick. New episodes drop every two weeks, with a monthly bonus episode and other goodies for paid subscribers.
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