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Towards An Ecology of Information
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The Immediast Approach
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0. Participating in the proliferation, crosspollination,
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and consolidation of counter-commercial print, audio,
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visual, modem, activist, and correspondence media.
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1. Documenting the basic sources, dynamics, and effects
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of corporate and State media control. Exposing methods
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of mind control, behavior modification, and image
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embedding.
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2. Openly discussing tools and methods that strengthen
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immunization and freedom from deceptive, disinforming,
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and subliminal media exposures. Upgrading public media
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literacy to decode, produce, and broadcast in all
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communications media.
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3. Open cultural expressions, education, networking, and
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resistance.
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4. Reclaiming public sovereignty of the airwaves.
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5. The liberation of all public space from government,
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corporate, and business messages.
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6. Public takeover of all airborne commercial
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broadcast media and the creation [of] public
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production libraries.
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7. Liberation as glasnost: the emergence of democratic
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public communications and media networks.
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"The Immediasts envision liberating changes in public access
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and cultural freedom. We draw from the powers
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of public domain and personal freedom to counter the
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systematic penetrations of commercial media into
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individual privacy through public space."
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Creating Public Production
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Libraries
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An Immediast Project
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If literacy measures people's ability to read and write,
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people living in information societies are media illiterate--
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unequipped to decode the effects of media on intelligence
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and intimacy and unable to write in the language of broadcasting.
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While the media's ecology of coercion assuages public
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desire to participate in the media by emphasizing the bottom-line
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significance of public polls, Gallop & its pathetic epigones
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merely totalize a few public neurons into the status
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of a collective brain. How many of your comrades and kin have ever
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participated in a Gallup poll, anyway?
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Public seizure of all commercial broadcast media establishes
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what public production libraries nurture: liberation from
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advertising, the decommodification of public attention, the
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upgrade of public intelligence, the development of media
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literacy, the documentation of public productions, facilitated
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cultural expression, the termination of covert State
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action, violence, propaganda, and media control, and the
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inviolable ground for a public media and open state.
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Such are the aims of all Immediast plans and projects.
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Public production libraries will be built in sisterhood with the public
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libraries that now exist. Within each production
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library will be the facilities to produce print, audio,
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visual, and database material. "Librarians" will serve as technicians,
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maintenance, and repair people. Production libraries
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will give people a larynx through which to speak. The
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media seized, corporations silenced, and the State
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under relentless scrutiny, we will reconnect and
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celebrate who we are.
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