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The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

by Astra Taylor

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"Finished" — May 24, 2014 03:18PM

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“while piracy signifies “a repudiation of information capitalism at one extreme,” it marks information capitalism’s “consummation” on the other.”
― Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

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“For all its flaws, copyright provides some incentive for people to take on the risk of creating new work by allowing for the possibility of some economic benefit.”
― Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

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“The rub is that over the intervening years we have somehow deceived ourselves into believing that this state of insecurity and inequity is a form of liberation.”
― Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

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“wealth and power are shifting to those who control the platforms on which all of us create, consume, and connect. The companies that provide these and related services are quickly becoming the Disneys of the digital world—monoliths hungry for quarterly profits, answerable to their shareholders not us, their users, and more influential, more ubiquitous, and more insinuated into the fabric of our everyday lives than Mickey Mouse ever was. As such they pose a whole new set of challenges to the health of our culture.”
― Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

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“Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce entertaining and enlightening things online, are right to marvel. There is amazing inventiveness, boundless talent and ability, and overwhelming generosity on display. Where they go wrong is thinking that the Internet is an egalitarian, let alone revolutionary, platform for our self-expression and development, that being able to shout into the digital torrent is adequate for democracy.”
― Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

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