EPIC – the Future of Media

The fast pace of technology and media culture change every thing is possible. There were many things that predicted about the media and it is technology use. We saw many of them were already happened and lots of them are happing. It is also possible to happen what the people are predicting about the media because of the fact growing technological use.
Although cultural change over years and years are one of the factors, technology is the key here. It is possible that ten years from now Google and Amazon may merge and come up lot of community needed media that can culturally changed media and society. We see everyday that the commercial media are undermining the value and the principle of this country. We see human rights abuses. We see the American democracy tradition and political participation are hijacked by few rich and corrupted dishonest journalists. We did not see the rule of law and the old American civil society follows only and respects rule of law. The future of media prediction showed us the possibilities of change and less or almost technical determinisms.
The Google Grid is possible because consumers or media user are already had many storage since the advance of the web 0.2. So, the next decade or so it is possible the media user may have unlimited access and huge amount of storage. These are all EPIC, the Evolving Personalized Information Construct for well informed citizen.

PART 1 EXCERPTS FOR ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY MEDIA CONFERENCE

What is the Alliance for Community Media

Community Media is Citizen media

Citizen media is community voice where the news is community news. It is a bottom-up approach, which is open source, and every citizen can contribute to it as a collaborative way. In citizens, ordinary citizens are reporters, photographers, cameraperson and editors to their news. A good example of citizen’s media is such as blogs, vlogs, podcating and do-it-yourself printing media. This is where the citizen’s media differs itself from the mass media which is top-down mainstream media.

Contrarily, mass media is merely profit oriented corporate media that does not care the basic public interest like media access and right to know. In citizens media there is no centrally controlled then distributed media, it is a media that generated by people to the people for the people. Overall, it is a complete civic involvement whether is politics, financial, education, employment and media itself.

What is Community Media

Community media is any form of communications which is noncommercial by nature for the community. The purpose of community media is access that the media activity should improve the quality of life in the community. It provides a passage for free speech and personal expression. A truthful local news and up-to-date information is one of its priorities. It has great purpose for community building. It gives free access to citizens’ who entrust in the creative process, development of arts and cultural activities. Community media make a links for the community and voluntary sector to the local authorities for social rejuvenation. It promotes problem-solving methodology for community with the public at-large. Its standpoint is to strength the democratic process, pluralism, and promotion of citizen’s involvement in their communities and the public. (Guled)

Is Ethnic Media an Option?

As student of media I like to explore different kind of media. The one I thought first it will work best for the community was ethnic. Now, I realize it won’t help the community in number of reasons. One of the important reasons is because it is commercial. It is a profit-base media which is risk for take over like Telemundo Spanish TV. This TV used to be Latino TV but now it is corporate media after take over. When the big corporate media saw how well they doing in the market they take over. So the best option is community media.