Media Democracy
We are moving, fast, in two directions at once: toward an ever-more concentrated media dominated by corporate interests and government control and at the same time toward a democratic media like nothing we have seen before, expressing a wide variety of opinions and cultures, accessible to both those with resources and those without, and used to build community, solidarity, citizen strength, and to foster a truly living democracy. Through efforts to democratize media institutions, move voices we otherwise would never hear into the public realm, and create new avenues of media and new spaces for media analysis and critique, our media is being transformed, from the bottom up.
See the media chapter from Democracy’s Edge, for more.