{"id":87,"date":"2011-12-26T15:40:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T15:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2011-12-26T20:22:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T20:22:51","slug":"abandon-commercial-consumer-mainstream-mass-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/26\/abandon-commercial-consumer-mainstream-mass-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandon Commercial, Consumer, Mainstream, Mass Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bill.xpd?bill=h112-3261\">SOPA (HR 3261)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bill.xpd?bill=s112-968\">PROTECT-IP (SB 968)<\/a> bills making their separate ways through Congress, I asked myself, &#8220;Why do people continually consume media by corporations whose only perception of its patrons is that of a passive consumer.  Ignorance? Complacency? Apathy? Naivety?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since I have made my own switch to a more <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Participatory_culture\">participatory culture<\/a> (one that encourages my involvement instead of stifles it), I have found my media engagement to be considerably more fulfilling.<\/p>\n<p>Two major proponents of participatory culture are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_and_open_source_software\">FLOSS (Free, libre, open source software)<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creative_Commons\">Creative Commons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For those that wish to join me, and the millions of others who have already made the switch to abandon commercial, consumer, mainstream, and mass media, here is a small guide, starting with audio, to help you with that process.  I will also be documenting this guide on a similarly titled page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Audio\/Music<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/audio\">Archive.org&#8217;s Audio Collection<\/a> &#8211; A huge collection of music, lectures, and everything else that can be recorded via audio.  Archive.org has partnered (one of many) with <a href=\"http:\/\/etree.org\/\">etree.org<\/a> to archive many of their collections of trade-encouraged and freely recorded works.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wfmu.org\">WFMU<\/a> &#8211; Freeform, commercial free, listener supported radio station of the nation. The fun 91. They archive and have made accessible (almost) every show their DJs have played since the year 2000. That&#8217;s over 96,000 hours of audio for you to enjoy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\">Free Music Archive<\/a> &#8211; A Creative Commons, public domain music curated collective.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/etree.org\/\">etree.org<\/a> &#8211; The award-winning leader in lossless digital audio distribution on the Internet.  They are a community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/\">Bandcamp<\/a> &#8211; A website that allows artists to distribute and sell their audio and merchandise directly to fans.  <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bandcamp.com\/2009\/01\/19\/on-the-expansion-of-creativity-in-the-commons\/\">Not all of Bandcamp&#8217;s content is Creative Commons licensed, but they do also support these artists<\/a>. You can find some who are by searching tags <a href=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/tag\/creativecommons\">creativecommons<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/tag\/creative-commons\">creative commons<\/a>. Hopefully this will improve in the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent SOPA (HR 3261) and PROTECT-IP (SB 968) bills making their separate ways through Congress, I asked myself, &#8220;Why do people continually consume&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-participatory-culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}