DIGITAL BE-IN 12

Media Revolution

The mediarev.org site is no longer live. This page represents the early vision that sparked it's life.

 

New media technologies promise profound changes in how global citizens obtain news and feature programming, as well as how we communicate among ourselves and contribute to the emerging many-to-many mass media system. Digital Be-In 12 is launching the Media Revolution campaign to highlight media Awareness, Alternatives and Activism.

1) Awareness: understanding how mass media news and television programming is controlled and subject to biases stemming from centralized corporate ownership and political forces

2) Alternatives: choosing among the growing number of alternative media experiences as a counterbalance to pervasive, commercially-biased media.

3) Action: using the tools of change and evolution - email, mailing lists, web-based publishing, intelligent "push and pull" media usage vs. passive consumer.