So I would like to build off one of the early posts that I had done on civic media. I had talked a little about the use of media and what I perceived civic media to be. I am going to try and refine that idea and expand a little bit on it.
So just to start of I really think that civic media's main purpose is to help inspire democratic ideals. Democracy requires an educated group of people so that they can make decisions that will benefit the society. So that is what civic media tries to do. It gives power to the people in the form of education. I think Thomas Jefferson summed it up best when he said, "I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education." That is the purpose of civic media to give power to the people.
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Showing posts with label civic media. Show all posts
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Civic Media
Okay, so I dont really feel like this enrty to the blog is very complete but I would just like to get this up to see if I could help anyone else get started in the right direction. I am going to try and continue looking into the subject and hopefully with more help I will be able to figure out a more comprehensive answer to what civil media is, and what it hopes to accomplish.
From some of the things that I read, civil media is the use of media and information to help society function in the the way that it should. It helps foster democratic ideals and leads to greater awareness as citizens of one another. It was interesting to note as I went through some of the information how there seemed to be a trend away from large corporations in charge of information. There seemed to be a large push to putting publishing and circulating information into the actual hands of people. Anarchy in an informational sense. Now there is a large range of stances on how media should be regulated, just like on any topic, but the main feel that I got from the entire thing was that civic media is the use of media to connect people so that society can be improved, not so that a huge corporation can have unfettered access to all information and have the opportunity to censor what it wishes.
MIT has a site on some of the applications of civic media and they do a good job of explaining it. Be patient though, it takes some of them some time to get to their points on their videos.
http://civic.mit.edu/what-is-civic-media
Just a quick example of bypassing the media conglomerates.
https://www.civicmediacenter.org/
Please reply and correct me if you think I have erred. I would also appreciate any other info on where to find a more concise layout of information on what civic media is.
From some of the things that I read, civil media is the use of media and information to help society function in the the way that it should. It helps foster democratic ideals and leads to greater awareness as citizens of one another. It was interesting to note as I went through some of the information how there seemed to be a trend away from large corporations in charge of information. There seemed to be a large push to putting publishing and circulating information into the actual hands of people. Anarchy in an informational sense. Now there is a large range of stances on how media should be regulated, just like on any topic, but the main feel that I got from the entire thing was that civic media is the use of media to connect people so that society can be improved, not so that a huge corporation can have unfettered access to all information and have the opportunity to censor what it wishes.
MIT has a site on some of the applications of civic media and they do a good job of explaining it. Be patient though, it takes some of them some time to get to their points on their videos.
http://civic.mit.edu/what-is-civic-media
Just a quick example of bypassing the media conglomerates.
https://www.civicmediacenter.org/
Please reply and correct me if you think I have erred. I would also appreciate any other info on where to find a more concise layout of information on what civic media is.
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