October 1st Notes. Jenkins Chapter 6

Questions:
-What is the role of participitory politics, over arching question.
-Participatory media may become danger
-Connection between politics and polular culture, twitter, facebook, blogs.
-Need fpr a common ground for deliberation.

Points.
-Pg. 222, Conflicting Forces.

Critique.
-Does or doesn't TV provide broad room for deliberation?
-Definition of mainstream media.
-Last paragraph he talks about the red and the blue. States we need to love eachother, more, could we, would this work?
-His perscriptions were somewhat probematic.


Mainstrean Media Vs. Alternative:
-Rush Limbaugh mainstream.
-Commercial corperate, motivated by profit.
-Broader Appeal
-It's not a usefull catagorey, it's only comparable to something else.

Alternative:
-Non Commercial
-Public broadcasting
-Niche market or narrowcasting

There are different ways we can classify the two, commercial/political/popularity. Is it easy to find, seek out?