Is a Democracy for, of, and by consumers possible?
Published by Steve Garfield on 27 Jan 2006 at 9:33 am.
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Jock Gill writes for Greater Democracy, : Is a Democracy for, of, and by consumers possible?
“With respect to the democratic IP communications revolution emerging in America, three critical communication questions are:
1] Where is the power of choice located? In the nexus of centralized government and corporations or at the edges in we, the people?
2] Where is content produced and distributed? Only in the center by corporate entities or at the edges by we, the people for oursleves?
3] Are we Consumers or Citizens?
We can find hints of the new answers on, of all places, the .Mac home page on the web.
Clearly, Apple wants people, in their homes and offices, using their personal, ever lower cost and ever more powerful technology, to be full fledged producers of audio, video, text and graphic content, to be shared [distributed] over the internet to as few or as many other interested people as there may be.”
