Graham Murdock on Citizenship, Cultural Rights and Public Broadcasting
Some notes (mostly working definitions on citizenship and cultural rights) from Graham Murdock's presentation tonight that I am storing here in case they come in handy later.
Murdock argues that "the Internet offers public broadcasting an opportunity for renewed construction of an open cultural commons that enhances and deepens citizenship, where programming becomes a point of entry to a wide range of other sources, activities and interactions."
Conceptions of Citizenship
Thin citizenship: voting
Think citizenship: right to participate fully in social life and forms that shape social life.
People need resources, free-time, safe housing, cultural resources (access to specific resources), etc. to put citizenship into practice.
Core Cultural Rights: Information, Knowledge*, Deliberation**, Representation, Participation
Knowledge is unnoticed links, decisions, patterns, connections and explanations. Knowledge can be contested and it needs to be contested through deliberation.
Deliberation is about listening and not speaking. It is about the other side; the willingness to let go of one's position; and to cooperate with people.
Three Kinds of Economies on the Internet: Commodities, Public Goods (OCW), Gifts (e.g. Wikipedia).
Advantages of Public Broadcasting
-people are already used to it
-trust
-counter individualization as well as mass fragmentation (the "ME" media as seen on the internet and niche media) and provision of a shared experience.
Murdock argues that "the Internet offers public broadcasting an opportunity for renewed construction of an open cultural commons that enhances and deepens citizenship, where programming becomes a point of entry to a wide range of other sources, activities and interactions."
Conceptions of Citizenship
Thin citizenship: voting
Think citizenship: right to participate fully in social life and forms that shape social life.
People need resources, free-time, safe housing, cultural resources (access to specific resources), etc. to put citizenship into practice.
Core Cultural Rights: Information, Knowledge*, Deliberation**, Representation, Participation
Knowledge is unnoticed links, decisions, patterns, connections and explanations. Knowledge can be contested and it needs to be contested through deliberation.
Deliberation is about listening and not speaking. It is about the other side; the willingness to let go of one's position; and to cooperate with people.
Three Kinds of Economies on the Internet: Commodities, Public Goods (OCW), Gifts (e.g. Wikipedia).
Advantages of Public Broadcasting
-people are already used to it
-trust
-counter individualization as well as mass fragmentation (the "ME" media as seen on the internet and niche media) and provision of a shared experience.
