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<nettime> FCC Urged to Support Local Media, PEG TV
Alliance for Communications Democracy: FCC Urged to Support Local Media, PEG TV:
Alliance for Communications Democracy http://theacd.org/
PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rob Brading, rob at metroeast.org, 503-667-8848 x 318
COMMUNITY GROUPS URGE FCC TO STRENGTHEN LOCAL, PUBLIC MEDIA CALL FOR ENFORCEMENT OF LOCALISM RULES
WASHINGTON (May 13, 2010) -- Hundreds of community groups and local residents from across the country urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week to strengthen local democracy, media diversity and public safety by supporting the nation's largest network of community-based media organizations -- Public, Educational and Government (PEG) Access cable TV centers.
"As local newspapers close, media companies consolidate, and national broadcasters dominate radio & television, PEG Access centers are increasingly the only source of community news, civic programming, diverse views and local emergency information," said Alliance for Communications Democracy (ACD) President Rob Brading of MetroEast Community Media in Gresham, Oregon.
As the FCC takes the pulse on media in America with its Future of Media proceeding, ACD, a 22-year-old coalition of local media groups, sounded the alarm that the FCC must take decisive action today to ensure that tomorrow's media landscape includes local voices and community access to media infrastructure.
ACD called on the FCC to enforce laws that prevent cable and video giants from discriminating against local PEG channels. ACD specifically urged the FCC to take action against AT&T's U-verse cable system that degrades PEG quality and functionality.
"There is a very real threat to our democratic institutions and way of life if there is not a sufficiently broad range of opinions expressed in the media and there is no practical means by which the average citizen can participate in the public dialogue." said Dr. Laura Linder, a professor of communication at Marist College in New York.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski launched the Future of Media proceeding "to assess whether all Americans have access to vibrant, diverse sources of news and information that will enable them to enrich their lives, their communities and our democracy."
The Chairman's call for comments was a met by outpouring of voices describing how the nation's 3,000 PEG Access centers are critical to local democracy and civic participation in communities nationwide.
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ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNICATIONS DEMOCRACY http://theacd.org/ acd at mnn.org
PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rob Brading, rob at metroeast.org, 503-667-8848 x 318
COMMUNITY GROUPS URGE FCC TO STRENGTHEN LOCAL, PUBLIC MEDIA CALL FOR ENFORCEMENT OF LOCALISM RULES
WASHINGTON (May 13, 2010) -- Hundreds of community groups and local residents from across the country urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week to strengthen local democracy, media diversity and public safety by supporting the nation's largest network of community-based media organizations -- Public, Educational and Government (PEG) Access cable TV centers.
"As local newspapers close, media companies consolidate, and national broadcasters dominate radio & television, PEG Access centers are increasingly the only source of community news, civic programming, diverse views and local emergency information," said Alliance for Communications Democracy (ACD) President Rob Brading of MetroEast Community Media in Gresham, Oregon.
As the FCC takes the pulse on media in America with its Future of Media proceeding, ACD, a 22-year-old coalition of local media groups, sounded the alarm that the FCC must take decisive action today to ensure that tomorrow's media landscape includes local voices and community access to media infrastructure.
ACD called on the FCC to enforce laws that prevent cable and video giants from discriminating against local PEG channels. ACD specifically urged the FCC to take action against AT&T's U-verse cable system that degrades PEG quality and functionality.
"There is a very real threat to our democratic institutions and way of life if there is not a sufficiently broad range of opinions expressed in the media and there is no practical means by which the average citizen can participate in the public dialogue." said Dr. Laura Linder, a professor of communication at Marist College in New York.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski launched the Future of Media proceeding "to assess whether all Americans have access to vibrant, diverse sources of news and information that will enable them to enrich their lives, their communities and our democracy."
The Chairman's call for comments was a met by outpouring of voices describing how the nation's 3,000 PEG Access centers are critical to local democracy and civic participation in communities nationwide.
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ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNICATIONS DEMOCRACY http://theacd.org/ acd at mnn.org
<nettime> Tirana Hunger Strike
Geert Lovink: Tirana Hunger Strike:
Tirana Hunger Strike
Dear friends,
Douglas, Philippe and I were shocked when we arrived to Albania to discover the massive protest in Tirana. Following a demonstration of 200,000 people, 200 citizens and 22 MPs started a hunger strike to ask for democracy. [...]
Dear friends,
Douglas, Philippe and I were shocked when we arrived to Albania to discover the massive protest in Tirana. Following a demonstration of 200,000 people, 200 citizens and 22 MPs started a hunger strike to ask for democracy. [...]
<nettime> Artist commits suicide online as a work of art (well, sort of)
. left | coast | lurker .: Artist commits suicide online as a work of art (well, sort of):
and not the only one _
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lscEOe7W6Q8
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lscEOe7W6Q8
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<nettime> .another internet is possible!_ [3x : mp, Rob Myers, Jaime Magiera]
benjamin: .another internet is possible!_ [3x : mp, Rob Myers, Jaime Magiera]: what has become of the node ? that which would, at first simple
correlate something like a visualisation of our position within a
system, not with base theories of web 2.0, is infused with the
characteristics of our physical selves
On 3 May 2010, at 08:08, nettime's internet didgest wrote:
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On 3 May 2010, at 08:08, nettime's internet didgest wrote:
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<nettime> Artist commits suicide online as a work of art (well, sort of)
olia lialina: Artist commits suicide online as a work of art (well, sort of): http://i.imgur.com/pP3rB.jpg
<nettime> The Return of DRM
Morlock Elloi: The Return of DRM: I'm skeptical about the ability of "us free from ..." to use imagination to hack into minds of zombies and provoke the Change.
The modern social engineering has become an exact science, and there are reliable methods that ensure sustained zombism through combination of high bandwidth distractions and low cost maintenance of social virtuality with minimal force, in which one's future is dependent on "money" and "economy", both of which are somehow always controlled by others.
While the invention of god+sex+guilt killer app in the middle ages, the invention of patriotism in 1840s and the invention of social justice in 1920s did wonders at the time, it is unlikely that any idea within similar categories would make any impact today. In those times sensory inputs were still used for seeking, it was the pull model (to use the messaging lingo), and today they are saturated with the overwhelmingly push model. Whoever does the pushing controls the target.
To put it bluntly, no one gives a flying fuck for your imagination. If you don't have an industrial strength media pump you are spitting into the river.
The technology caught up with human behavior, ideology and desires, and doing anything manually in the "changing things" business is like trying to grow food without tractors. It's a nice hobby, though.
You need that technology, and that's the choke point.
There is no such thing as digitally autonomous network. You don't know how to make transistors, chips, routers and computers in a sustainable way. They are made by contract manufacturing at the end of the long chain of capital, which you don't have. "Autonomous software" today is like graffiti on the wall, and dealt with in the similar fashion. Less people use PGP today than they did in early 1990s. P2P networks, champions of TAZes, are slowly being factored out. Graffiti artists are sexy, and sometimes can be commoditized and money made on them, but it's all entertainment. They don't matter.
You are wasting your time in symbolic hobby revolutions.
It used to be that any self-respecting revolution would first raze down the TV station. Remember "They Live"? Things were easy then. Today you would have to disrupt several of the dozen semi fabs and several major switching equipment manufacturers - and you probably don't even know where they are. Hint: in the countries operated by regimes where any thought of industrial action is fined by ingestion of own testicles.
Ideas and painting flowers on tanks did work when social engineering was primitive and needed expensive manual intervention. Today they don't work any more. Check the headlines. They are becoming less and less sophisticated, sounding more and more like Soviet propaganda - because there is no need for sophistication to compete with foreign ideas. All they need is volume, and they have it, and you don't.
The point being is that the long standing principle that ideas can change the world does not operate when one side has heavy machinery to saturate the idea receptors. Ad hoc efforts in the traditional information space do not appear effective these days - there are no more jungles to accommodate guerrilla warfare.
We need a new fucking jungle.
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The modern social engineering has become an exact science, and there are reliable methods that ensure sustained zombism through combination of high bandwidth distractions and low cost maintenance of social virtuality with minimal force, in which one's future is dependent on "money" and "economy", both of which are somehow always controlled by others.
While the invention of god+sex+guilt killer app in the middle ages, the invention of patriotism in 1840s and the invention of social justice in 1920s did wonders at the time, it is unlikely that any idea within similar categories would make any impact today. In those times sensory inputs were still used for seeking, it was the pull model (to use the messaging lingo), and today they are saturated with the overwhelmingly push model. Whoever does the pushing controls the target.
To put it bluntly, no one gives a flying fuck for your imagination. If you don't have an industrial strength media pump you are spitting into the river.
The technology caught up with human behavior, ideology and desires, and doing anything manually in the "changing things" business is like trying to grow food without tractors. It's a nice hobby, though.
You need that technology, and that's the choke point.
There is no such thing as digitally autonomous network. You don't know how to make transistors, chips, routers and computers in a sustainable way. They are made by contract manufacturing at the end of the long chain of capital, which you don't have. "Autonomous software" today is like graffiti on the wall, and dealt with in the similar fashion. Less people use PGP today than they did in early 1990s. P2P networks, champions of TAZes, are slowly being factored out. Graffiti artists are sexy, and sometimes can be commoditized and money made on them, but it's all entertainment. They don't matter.
You are wasting your time in symbolic hobby revolutions.
It used to be that any self-respecting revolution would first raze down the TV station. Remember "They Live"? Things were easy then. Today you would have to disrupt several of the dozen semi fabs and several major switching equipment manufacturers - and you probably don't even know where they are. Hint: in the countries operated by regimes where any thought of industrial action is fined by ingestion of own testicles.
Ideas and painting flowers on tanks did work when social engineering was primitive and needed expensive manual intervention. Today they don't work any more. Check the headlines. They are becoming less and less sophisticated, sounding more and more like Soviet propaganda - because there is no need for sophistication to compete with foreign ideas. All they need is volume, and they have it, and you don't.
The point being is that the long standing principle that ideas can change the world does not operate when one side has heavy machinery to saturate the idea receptors. Ad hoc efforts in the traditional information space do not appear effective these days - there are no more jungles to accommodate guerrilla warfare.
We need a new fucking jungle.
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<nettime> The role of Internet and ICT policies in the UK after the 2010 election: does it make a difference for the role of the Internet in British society if there will be a Labour-Lib Dem or a Conservative-Lib Dem government?
Christian Fuchs: The role of Internet and ICT policies in the UK after the 2010 election: does it make a difference for the role of the Internet in British society if there will be a Labour-Lib Dem or a Conservative-Lib Dem government?: The role of Internet and ICT policies in the UK after the 2010 election:
does it make a difference for the role of the Internet in British
society if there will be a Labour-Lib Dem or a Conservative-Lib Dem
government?
Source: NetPoliticsBlog, http://fuchs.uti. [...]
Source: NetPoliticsBlog, http://fuchs.uti. [...]
