Quotes by Astra Taylor

Astra Taylor

Advertisers are happy to see the stuff they’ve branded out there for free, they don’t care about scarcity, they want any message they’re invested in to be shared and to be abundant and to be passed along.

Care

Scarcity

Want

Again, it does seem like frustration is mounting in interesting ways, but I’m not sure there will be some dramatic tipping point. Then again, looking back on the history of television, you never know. People had to fight and articulate the politics and the rationale for different funding mechanisms. That was a long and drawn-out battle fought in different countries; it’s not like BBC and the CBC in Canada just magically appeared out of the ether. People had to organize for it. I’m always willing to be surprised.

Country

Fighting

Frustration

Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth.

Art

Essentials

Mean

As a citizen I might be well-behaved and have nothing salacious or radical about me, I might be a total bore, but I might suffer somehow if other people are being spied on and blocked from doing important work that might have a collective benefit down the road. The personal doesn’t necessarily translate to the social.

Important

People

Suffering

Basically political economy – that you have to look at how funding structures shape the media landscape. You have to look at commercial interests, consolidation – the economy structures are experience.

Looks

Media

Political

Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed a different kind of public broadcasting. There was a point where TV was so beholden to commercial interest that people – civil society – actually rose up and said, “This is ridiculous: we have our soap-selling soap operas, cigarette-sponsored news broadcast; we have our rigged quiz shows – let’s put some checks and balances here.”

America

People

Rose

For example, instead of being asked to write an article, suddenly editors wanted me to make super-short videos. The assumptions of those video gigs was that kids don’t read as much news and basically need to be read to, which I found really problematic and kind of insulting. I thought, Isn’t it just that you don’t have any money and that’s why you want me to make some crappy “content” for your website?

Editors

Kids

Writing

Giving people what they want reduces us to consumers instead of treating us like citizens, consumers who are on the prowl for the predictable and comfortable. What we want winds up being suspiciously like what we’ve already got, more of the same-the cultural equivalent of a warm bath.

Giving

People

Wind

How valiant to deny the importance of money when it is had in abundance.

Abundance

Deny

Valiant

I feel like we’re stuck in the former mode of reacting because that’s what gains traction in Washington. But I really believe we need a robust public good argument. Net neutrality is not just about creating the next Instagram or Farmville or whatever.

Believe

Creating

Needs

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Abundance

Addiction

Advertising

America

Art

Artist

Attitude

Believe

Book

Care

Compromise

Country

Crazy

Creating

Data

Decision

Deny

Destiny

Disappear

Editors

Essentials

Eyeballs

Fighting

Fringe

Frustration

Giving

Grateful

Growing Up

Guy

Hippie

Horns

Important

Issues

Kids

Looks

Males

Mean

Media

Months

Needs

Nsa

People

Phones

Play

Political

Professors

Reality

Rose

Salary

Scarcity

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Quotes by Astra Taylor

Astra Taylor

Advertisers are happy to see the stuff they’ve branded out there for free, they don’t care about scarcity, they want any message they’re invested in to be shared and to be abundant and to be passed along.

Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth.

Basically political economy – that you have to look at how funding structures shape the media landscape. You have to look at commercial interests, consolidation – the economy structures are experience.

Giving people what they want reduces us to consumers instead of treating us like citizens, consumers who are on the prowl for the predictable and comfortable. What we want winds up being suspiciously like what we’ve already got, more of the same-the cultural equivalent of a warm bath.

How valiant to deny the importance of money when it is had in abundance.

I feel like we’re stuck in the former mode of reacting because that’s what gains traction in Washington. But I really believe we need a robust public good argument. Net neutrality is not just about creating the next Instagram or Farmville or whatever.

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