(Taplin, Jonathan) Jonathan Taplin is the Director Emeritus of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab, and a former tour manager for Bob Dylan and The Band, as well as a film producer for Martin Scorsese. An expert in digital media entertainment, Taplin is a member of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and sits on the California Broadband Taskforce and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Council on Technology and Innovation. His new book, Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy (Little, Brown and Company) is a stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet and proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age. Jonathan Taplin offers a succinct and powerful history of how online life began to be shaped around the values of the men who founded these companies. Move Fast and Break Things offers a vital, forward-thinking prescription for how artists can reclaim their audiences using knowledge of the past and a determination to work together.
