[IMC-Video] Democratic Media

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On 06/07/2007, at 6:13 PM, steve at coanews.org wrote:

> Check out this video about saving democratic media:
> http://democraticmedia.ca/blog-entry/stop-big-media-takeover-video

Interesting that you chose to put a video about the big media take  
over on YouTube. I guess the conversation of late has been discussing  
the fact that YouTube IS the new big media. I can't entirely explain  
why but activists really seem to have lowered their guard in terms of  
using the new corporate media. Obviously it's quite different,  
corporate media didn't used to distribute almost anyones content but  
there is a quite disturbing relationship emerging where once all the  
corporate media did was sell our eyes to advertisers, now they take  
our content (and our thoughts and feelings) and our social networks  
and sell our labour (and eyes) to advertisers (or data mine our  
online personalities for marketing companies).

The new corporate media seem to be becoming even more centralised  
than the old version. Does any one media company dominate the global  
TV market to the same extent that Google/YouTube dominate the online  
video space? A few giant landlords are really starting to dominate  
this space, they give us a patch of virtual earth to cultivate our  
content and social networks and take the vast majority of the value  
for themselves.

Because we're such small fish in such a big pond we never seem to  
notice they are making so much money from our us, after all we got a  
global distribution network out of the deal and some pretty cool  
features alternative media aren't offering, which we're all currently  
aware of.

That's probably a long enough rant for now. Slightly more thought out  
thoughts along similar lines here
http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/andrewl/news/freebeer/

Cheers.
And.

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