Screen-Free Week: April 18-24, 2011

presented by Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/screenfreeweek/index.html

endorsed by the Media Education Foundation
http://www.mediaed.org

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• MEF

[petrus4]

I'm getting very tired of these sorts of campaigns, truthfully.

The main problem with them, is the presupposition that media devices are inherently evil. That might even be true in the case of television, but it isn't in terms of computers and the Internet.

Total Luddism is not a virtue, and depicting it as one is misguided; not to mention authoritarian.  My computer will be staying on, this week.

[Kerrydeanify]

oops, I meant to say "I know total luddism is NOT your message but only because I know your organization."

[Kerrydeanify]

I didn't get to the e-mail notification of this campaign until May 1st. So, obviously, I didn't really get to choose whether or not to participate.

I am a fan of your organization (and a subscriber!) but I'm not sure this is quite up to your standard. I think the message is incomplete. I know "total Luddism" is your message, but only because I know your organization. This video could be taken that way given it's lack of overt point of view.

Keep working, you're doing good stuff!

[voyeurdug]

Commercial media - broadcast, and mostly TV - has been people's main source of news & information for ~about~ sixty years... three generations. In that time they've learned that entertainment sells, so news & information has become newstainment... in the service of advertisers... not in the service of audiences. In the last 20, or so (30 if you count public broadcasting), alternative media has been making inroads on that, and the internet has accelerated the process. Watch consciously, folks.

[hypnofan35]

The alternaltive to an "electronic indoctrination" is figuring out what is actually occuring. Things are changing really quickly ... right? Is that natural? or is it something else? My explanation for the "play out" such as it is: there is an innerworld culure & they run the show in outer surface world. The goal is to prevent an extinction event. It's because from time to time (~10K years) the earth (our planet) settles into a lower energy shape. Big enough to shake civilization loose.