[IMC-Video] Democratic Media

[steve at coanews.org]

he he, funny thing is I've written widely about the new corporate  
media thing. Here is a little article I wrote a while ago and little  
video too:
http://www.coanews.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=1332

I'm also involved with FreespeechTv's new online non-profit online  
community http://community.freespeech.org

I use Youtube in some cases when I think it is strategically worth it  
- it's definitely a trade off, and I support developing our own  
resources, and I am involved in making this happen.

I agree with most of your points, they mostly echo my own.

Steve


Quoting and <and at axxs.org>:

> This is an interesting article following similar lines to those
> discussed here
>
> What the MySpace generation should know about working for free
> http://www.re-public.gr/en/wp-print.php?p=138
>
> On 08/07/2007, at 3:52 PM, Michael Eisenmenger wrote:
>
>> When YouTube sold to Google for 1.65 billion, that amounted to    
>> approx. $5000 per YouTube user. Television has always been based on  
>>   the model of selling 'viewers' to 'advertisers', now in the  
>> online   environment,  'users' and content producers' are  
>> aggregated and   sold to potential advertisers/marketeers.
>>
>> I still believe it's better to build your own networks - no matter   
>>  how small, otherwise you're feeding the machine that sells you.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
>>> what is happening is like the googleizon  video hat was made about  
>>>   the future.....
>>>
>>> this is the  interesting fictional but prophetic video
>>>
>>> EPIC 2014
>>> You're about to watch a future history of the media by Robin Sloan  
>>>   and Matt Thompson, with music by Aaron McLeran. Click here to    
>>> watch EPIC 2014! ...
>>> www.robinsloan.com/epic/ - 5k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
>>>
>>> that is why of  course is good to keep your own servers on line  but...
>>> USE THEM THE MAINSTREAM ALSO... if you an get content on there     
>>> remember it can be
>>> used to point back to your own independent server in the notes and  urls
>>> with he  video on their page.. ( I keep repeating myself eh?)
>>>
>>>
>>> ed
>>> In a message dated 7/7/2007 12:28:49 P.M. US Mountain Standard    
>>> Time, and at axxs.org writes:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>> pass it on to every Canadian you know!
>>>>
>>>> Steve
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