“Streaming, Taste, Delivery”
-Music moves across boundaries. Music also transcends culture and politics.
– ex: Herbie Hancock Jazz musician “Watermelon Man” song that had a minstrel show feel to it, perpetuating negative black stereotypes, was adopted by other artists from different genres s
Herbie Hancock-electronic music synthesized with Jazz
-Ownership plays a role in music as well.
The regulation of digital media which raises the question
Should we as a society consider regulating content?
Radio-works within set frequencies, that is limited.
The FCC- regulates radio, since it is electronically broadcasts and publicly owned resource. This means that the government is obligated to regulate its use. For “Public Good” is the standard they govern the radio programming to monitor the content being distributed to the community.
Television-in early days of TV ABC, NBC, and CBS were only three options available. PBS was not offered everywhere and was small so people had to watch one of the three major networks to get information/entertainment.
In those days television was also regulated and had to provide news with opposing viewpoints and weather. There weren’t laws instead there were regulations set forth for licensing. They relied on networks using self-censorship rather than laws to govern content.
Cable television was able to bend the rules more because there was more room to do so with additional channels on television. While digital television has absolutely no rules and networks can pretty much do what they want since there aren’t any regulations preventing them from distributing any content of their choosing.
The question asked in class is
Should YouTube be censored?
My answer to that is NO. It is true that some content on YouTube can be persuasive though it is incorrect and most times is pushing some sort of agenda also known as “conspiracy theories” BUT I feel that as individuals we bare the responsibility to do research on a topic and gather facts from multiple sources before coming to a conclusion. I feel that if people truly believe something to be fact because it is on the internet or is presented to them by someone they admire and they run with that information without checking any other outlets or sources they are less than smart. I think there should be a mandatory training module that everyone has to take before accessing the internet. It should be modeled after the tech requirements universities use for assessing student’s research skills to determine the reliability of sources.