Annenberg Colloquium: The Politics of Media, Technology and Culture

Can an open, democratic culture survive the juggernaut of media consolidation, expansive intellectual property law and restrictive digital technologies that are now remaking the Internet, television and other media? Author, activist and Lear Center fellow David Bollier and Robert McChesney, communications scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, discusses the changing politics of the media, technology and culture. Bollier discusses the many ways that corporations misuse copyright and trademark law to stifle creativity and free speech -- the focus of his book, Brand Name Bullies (Wiley, 2005) -- and the power of "the commons" as way to assert the the public's larger interests. McChesney discusses recent developments in the media marketplace that are skewing news coverage, political discourse and cultural expression. He also describes the advocacy campaigns now being waged by Free Press, the media reform organization that he founded in 2002.

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[idecentman]

Thank you for posting this video. It was extremely informative.