With alternative forms of new media (facebook, twitter, youtube, and internet tv) we are about to see the end of the networks as we know them... we are already seeing the final days of newspapers.
I cancelled my cable television subscription when I realized what a Roku was and how it works.
So with this shift about to occur, how can we go about preventing big corporate interests from taking over like they did with television? How can we keep the power to share information, art and political discourse from being controlled by two or three large corporations?
When television was invented people had great enthusiasm about how it would lead to great educational opportunities for the world, how it would give more power to the middle class, how it would change the world for the better. Then the huge networks took over, the government regulated it to the interests of these corporate interests and television became a pile of mush that entertained to the lowest common dominator.
Any ideas how we can keep the internet for the common man?
I cancelled my cable television subscription when I realized what a Roku was and how it works.
So with this shift about to occur, how can we go about preventing big corporate interests from taking over like they did with television? How can we keep the power to share information, art and political discourse from being controlled by two or three large corporations?
When television was invented people had great enthusiasm about how it would lead to great educational opportunities for the world, how it would give more power to the middle class, how it would change the world for the better. Then the huge networks took over, the government regulated it to the interests of these corporate interests and television became a pile of mush that entertained to the lowest common dominator.
Any ideas how we can keep the internet for the common man?