📚 Can Marketing Be Anti-Capitalist? with Joe Cardillo

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I am back on the podcast to talk with social change communicator, Joe Cardillo (they/them). We chatted about navigating social change and communications in our fragmented and profit-driven tech world. Joe has an amazing perspective about communications and branding and how we can reshape our world through those mediums. Read on for more...

On Tap This Week
🎙 Can Marketing Be Anti-Capitalist?
🎬 Rethinking the Discovery Process
🎬 Surviving the Enshitification of the Internet
🌱 Comms, tech, & media news

As our tech landscape has incentivized inauthentic behavior, we discussed how organizations and movements can overcome disintermediation, disinformation, and the enshitification of the Internet. We also discussed:

• How ‘Discovery’ has been taken over by capitalist, profit-driven thought and how we can shift to a humanized strategic approach.
• Building relationships outside of extractive fundraising
• Getting sucked into oversimplification and the Alexa-fying of our movements
• Enthusiastic Consent - rethinking relationships with mass communications
• The relief of unsubscribing to bad political emails and why I’m still subscribed to AOC and Corrie Bush’s listserv.

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Rethinking the Discovery Process

I appreciated Joe's framing of Discovery and how we can begin to go about our strategic planning in an anti-capitalist way that bridges true connections with our audiences.

Surviving the Enshitification of the Internet as an Organization

Joe noted early in our conversation that "the best sort of synthesis of all that is Cory Doctorow's, you know, essay on enshitification, which is sort of the cycle that these big capitalism focused companies go through to, you know, to scale everything. And then it sort of all falls apart and gets worse for us as users and customers."

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In Solidarity,
Sam Chavez
Roots of Change Founder

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