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To: Thomas M. who wrote (2608)	8/9/2001 5:08:32 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

Challenging the Consensus A response to The Daily We Henry Jenkins bostonreview.mit.edu Excerpt: If, circa 2001, we ask ourselves whether the revolution will be digitized, our answers look very different. The Web's low barriers to entry and many-to-many distribution ensure that we have much greater access to innovative or even revolutionary ideas than ever before. Those silenced by corporate media have been among the first to transform their computer into a printing press. This opportunity has benefited third parties, revolutionaries, reactionaries, and racists alike. It also sparks fear in the hearts of the old intermediaries and their allies. One person's diversity, no doubt, is another person's anarchy. Now, consider the second slogan, which students in the streets of Chicago chanted at the network news trucks, "The whole world is watching." Whatever the difficulties, if the student protesters got their images and ideas broadcast via ABC, CBS, and NBC, they would reach a significant segment of the population. Network television may be, as George Gilder suggests, a "technology of tyrants," but it was also the technology that enabled Martin Luther King Jr. to transform the hearts and minds of the American public. Is there any place on the Web where the whole world is watching? The Web is a billion people on a billion soapboxes all speaking at once with nobody listening. That's why the dot-coms advertised so heavily on television. We aren't going to see the old intermediaries wither away anytime soon, as long as the networks still command a greater share of our attention and thus remain a more powerful means to deliver commercial messages. [...]