MDSC61H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Open-Source Software, Alternative Media, Independent Media Center
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Forms of alternative tings: alternative content and perspectives, ethnic media. Indymedia: alt organizational & structural models, pirate radio, alt music distribution, alt technological configs, open source software, alt interface dev, alt practices, appropriation, noise and glitch music, slow media. Alternative media resists the idea of passive consumption: to be critical and mindful of media content we see (ie not falling for clickbait, also to be critical of our consumption of media tech. The key buzzwords are networks, the internet and social media. In the second decade, people will not search for new technologies allowing for even easier, faster and low-priced content production. Rather, appropriate reactions to this media revolution are to be developed a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)tegrated politi(cid:272)all(cid:455), (cid:272)ulturall(cid:455) a(cid:374)d so(cid:272)iall(cid:455). The (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)ept (cid:862) lo(cid:449)(cid:863), as i(cid:374) (cid:862) lo(cid:449) food(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:374)ot as i(cid:374) (cid:862) lo(cid:449) do(cid:449)(cid:374)(cid:863), is a ke(cid:455) for this.
