Greetings Economists, On Apr 7, 2007, at 8:48 AM, Leigh Meyers wrote:
In all honesty, I wrote Pacifica off in the 60 when they still broadcast a musical diet of jazz and classical more to suit my mommy than a generation of hippies, black/brown/white Panthers and radical students/workers (and radical greasers) fighting the police on the streets of NY, Boston, Detroit and Berkeley to the tunes of Phil Ochs, Gil Scott-Heron... the MC5. They weren't announcing activist events then either.
Doyle; :-) well there are other things out there than Pacifica. I think this thread has run it's course. But I find it a bit interesting this sort of thinking at management at KPFA. It goes against the organizing principles on the left. But in a way that seems like oh if insurance didn't ask this we'd not be demanding you not say the forbidden stuff. There are concepts in site design to see the web sites as hub and spokes. So myface is an example of a social network constructed around popularity elements being built up. And people start grooving on the process because of a hidden need for connection. So organizing on that sort of scale is pretty strong. Myface gets boring after awhile and has a high turnover. And the kids use it for bullying so the social scene is very anarchic and mean. I presume that what is missing is the sort of framework religions build up to tame the activities that are harmful. That said, I think what is useful about the media is the reliance upon a tradition that is crumbling with the on going establishment of network structure in communication. What I mean is one can play off the weakness of big media to show off what network structures can do better. This is a good example. Network structure is precisely what this manager is trying to head off forming. So the manager is committed to an old media regulation of network structure. So that media content is one to many. Oblivious to the network value that arise no matter how much one tries to limit network information. This parallels a left desire for organizing, but pushes the concept into a work process with machine automated production of network ties. Doyle
