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Jonathan Taplin is an American writer, film producer, and scholar. He has worked with major figures in music and film, including Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, and served as director of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab.
Known for: Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
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Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
In this incisive work, Jonathan Taplin explores how Silicon Valley’s tech giants—Facebook, Google, and Amazon—transformed the internet from a space of creative freedom into a monopolized system that erodes democracy and cultural diversity. Drawing on his experience in media and technology, Taplin argues that the pursuit of disruption and profit has come at the expense of artists, journalists, and civic institutions, and calls for a reimagining of digital culture to restore balance and fairness.
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Historical Context: The Dream That Became a Machine
To understand how Facebook, Google, and Amazon came to dominate culture and democracy, we must first return to the Internet’s formative decades. The early network was born from public funding—ARPANET, a government program designed to share information freely among researchers. It carried egalitarian...
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The Rise of Digital Monopolies: How Power Became Platformed
Monopoly power today doesn’t look like the Standard Oil of old. It’s algorithmic, not industrial; invisible, not tangible. Facebook, Google, and Amazon achieved dominance not simply through innovation but through design—network effects that made their platforms self-reinforcing, acquisitions that ne...
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About Jonathan Taplin
Jonathan Taplin is an American writer, film producer, and scholar. He has worked with major figures in music and film, including Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, and served as director of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. His work focuses on media economics, technology policy, and the intersection of ...
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Jonathan Taplin is an American writer, film producer, and scholar. He has worked with major figures in music and film, including Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, and served as director of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. His work focuses on media economics, technology policy, and the intersection of ...
Jonathan Taplin is an American writer, film producer, and scholar. He has worked with major figures in music and film, including Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, and served as director of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. His work focuses on media economics, technology policy, and the intersection of culture and democracy.
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Jonathan Taplin is an American writer, film producer, and scholar. He has worked with major figures in music and film, including Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, and served as director of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab.
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