FEATURE: Five Questions with...Irene McGee

Five Questions with...Irene McGee

Media activist and pundit Irene McGee is perhaps best known for her award-winning podcast No One's Listening, which since its 2005 inception has addressed a range of subjects spanning popular culture and the forces that shape it. She is also an outspoken critic against media manipulation and the myth of reality-based television. FierceMobileContent editor Jason Ankeny spoke with McGee on the future of mobile content--and the struggle between carriers and consumers to control that future.

FierceMobileContent: How is the mobile industry influencing the culture at large?

Irene McGee: I don't know if mobile media is having a negative or positive impact, but we're definitely making a cultural shift. It's a means of allowing us to connect with business or personal contacts, yet we do it in a very public environment. I can't remember the last time I used a pay phone. Pay phones had booths we talked inside, for privacy--remember privacy? So 1990s. Speaking of privacy, what seems really important to most consumers is that their phone has a camera. Now people can record anything at anytime, but does that mean that you have a right to use any image? I don't know. 

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