Un calpin d'Anne Goldenberg

What is Media Democracy

Media democracy is a production and distribution model which promotes a
system that informs and empowers all members of society, and enhances
democratic values.

It is a concept and a social movement that has grown as a response
to the increased corporate domination of media. Democratizing the media
involves reforming the mass media, strengthening public service
broadcasting, and developing independent media and
participatory(citizen) media.

Media Democracy broadly encompasses the following notions: that the
health of the democratic political system depends on the efficient,
accurate, and complete transmission of social, political, and cultural
information in society; that the media are the conduits of this
information and should act in the public interest; that the mass media
have increasingly been unable and uninterested in fulfilling this role
due to increased concentration of ownership and commercial pressures;
and that this undermines democracy as voters and citizens are unable to
participate knowledgeably in public policy debates. Without an informed
and engaged citizenry, policy issues become defined by political and
corporate elites. A related element of this concept examines the lack
of representation of a diversity of voices and viewpoints, particularly
of those who have traditionally been marginalized by mass media.

We see great promise in the open communications of the internet and
want that openness expanded into every form of media. We envision a
global system of communications that has as its foundation in the
direct, democratic participation of citizens. To this end, we demand
the timely transfer of key media sources back to the people.

Understand the Problems and learn about the solutions to achieve democratic media revolution!