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 * Chapter 1-Community**

Is the mass media in western societies crudely repressive or repressive in a pervasive and subtle way? **(Steve)** Is community media a term that encompasses all the other media defintions? (e.g. radical media, alternative media) **(Steve)** Can community media be considered a civic duty much like jury duty and therefore we can refer to it as community media duty? **(Steve)**


 * Chapter 2-Access and Free Speech**

What level of true access does the consuming public have to the media at all levels? **(Steve)** Where are boundries drawn in terms of programming and access? **(Steve)** What were some of the "vanity videos" prevalent in the 1980s? **(Steve)**

Guled's Questions
 * 1) Is civil society is really something associational or nonprofit? (Guled)
 * 2) What is the media that civil society wants to create? (Guled)
 * 3) Why is important the mutual dependency of civil society and the market? (Guled)

Jay's Questions >
 * 1) Was the Corporation for Public Broadcasting created to support community media? Is it only limited to broadcast media? What is different about the goals of CPB, Cable Franchising Agreements and community media in general?
 * 2) Is Public Television Considered Community Media? Besides the technology what is the difference? How important is access to production of the media when defining community media?
 * 1) Is the author saying that media like zines, alternative, radical, and citizens' media were not historically considered Community Media, but should be?
 * 2) Does the definition of Community Media have to include not for profit status or can quality commercial content that appropriately reflects a society be considered Community Media?

Sequoia Stenlund's Questions:

Pam Ross' Questions 1. Who/what is UNESCO and what prompted them to form a commision in 1976 to examine international communications issues? Their ultimate pupose was to bring about a New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) (pg.17) which produced the MacBride Report, recommending more democratic policies re:communications and a code of ethics for mass media. This report generated the terms "access," "participation" and "self-management" to define democratic media. Why did the U.S. withdraw its membership and funding of the UNESCO commision in 1984? 2. When did the FCC turn to the dark side? In 1969, they saw the value in community access and used their power for good, in the public interest, to establish the early versions of community access rules for cable companies. Must have happened when the Cable companies moved from start-up status to mega-rich corporations and started sleeping with the FCC. In 1971 it seemed that it could have gone either way, administering it as a national policy but went with local authority. Might it have been more successful and useful as a democratic tool of the people if access television policy was established nationally instead of locally? 3. Canada seems to have an interesting model for community media but there was a policy change in 1997 then a turnaround in 2002. (pg 70) What were those changes about, that temporarily favored cable companies? And what is the Canadian production fund? Has the U.S. ever tried such an approach?
 * 1) When it comes to monopolies and duopolies, and they are illegal I've been told, why does our society allow companies to work like that without being shut down? Take Verizon DLS & Comcast Cable Access Internet Service Providers as just one example out of hundreds upon hundreds.
 * 2) Why does the media in our society hide so much information? If they shared the truth more often, surely they would make more of a profit it seems.
 * 3) Is it actually possible that Net Neutrality will be killed in this country? I cannot see this becoming a reality. Not with the lives that we live today. It's not realistic, right?

Yianno's Questions 1.How can you determine which community media groups are really in it for the money and which ones are for specifically non-profits?

2. What role could cable acess television play for the fute to come? Could it be of great importance? 3. How does the goverment feel about Commnunity media?

Journel's questions

1. How to engage and make the public a more active partner in the fight for the soul of the internet and telecommunications reform? 2. Should we address virtual community (online) as networking instead of community (geographic)? In my view virtual community is or should only be used to create a sense of closeness and security between internauts (the most active users of the internet). What about you?