Full text This is Episode 1 in the Van life Culture series. Where we put the lens on the van life travelling and blogging movement established by Foster Huntington, who famously quit a Manhattan corporate job to travel, and blog full time in Volkswagen. Vanlife is made possible thanks to the democratising potential if the internet, and crowdfunding sites which allow the little guy to participate. But increasingly the digital media legends I follow who have been there since the internet begun and we're celebrating this democratising potential are now claiming capitalist monopolies are now crippling those early utopian visions. What does this mean for van lifers? like a lot of creative people, van lifers depend on a relatively level playing field if they are to participate successfully. References: McChesney, R. 2013, Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy, The New Press, New York Music: Road Trip by Lane Petrosenko featuring Racquel Deveau (CC BY-NC 3.0) https://soundcloud.com/user-427503922/road-trip Image: CC0 Tropical Retro Volkswagen by Free-Photos https://pixabay.com/en/van-volkswagen-travel-trip-summer-1209169/ https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en My Blog: http://communication-generation.com/