Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Citizens do media for themselves
In society today we find ourselves surfing the net and interacting like never before. We've received the media with open arms and learned to absorbed information from so many different sources. "The web has evolved from place where people go to do research into a social space now and people understand what the ramifications are of that,". Now today we've been showered with different software, programs, and sites that allow us, "the people" to interact so much more freely for free, for our on entertainment.
"JD Lasica's Ourmedia is a place online where anyone can publish their own
digital home movie, music, photos, or even plain old blog for free."This "ourmedia" allows people to publish and upload anything they would like with the exception of pornography and copyrighted material through creative commons license which is a means where the publisher themselves can determine the terms and use of their material.
"Traditional media needs to transform and evolve and open the doors so they are not lecturing us, but having conversation with us," says JD and I agree.
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Are "citizen media" the wave of the futre? Or is this just wishful thinking on the part of the progressive alt-media crowd? Creative Commons is an idea that offers an alternative to the tradition forms of intellectual property. It is a nobel experiment that tests the limits of human self-interest. Market rules are being challenged but will it be more than a symbolic challenge mounted by an elite sub-culture?
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