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Welcome to the Tactical Media Group Wiki. Please help frame the issues surrounding Media and Communication Policy.

//**[|Glossary of Terms]**//

Citizen Media; Citizen's Media; Community Media; **Democratic Media**; Development Media; Net Neutrality; Participatory Media

//**Key Concepts in Media and Communication Policy**//

What is the Public Interest?

What are the points of view? · Corporate · Regulatory · Consumer

What is Net Neutrality and why is it important?

What is Concentration of Ownership and why is it Bad?

What is the Digital Divide and why should we care?

What is Community Programming and why is it important?

Conservative vs. Liberal · Conservatives think the market will figure it out. · Liberals think Regulation and Reform are in the publics interest, while allowing corporations to thrive.

Monopolies vs. Market [note: one criticism of capitalism is that all markets tend towards monopoly, needs reworking--Jason] · Monopolies don't innovate. · Monopolies are not diverse. · Monopolies do the unpopular. · Monopolies don't share. · Monopolies don't price competively.