Costelloe-KuehnMemo9

Structuring a Project: maps out the structural conditions that shape the "object" of research


 * Legal and Legislative**
 * 1996 FCC Telecommunications Act
 * Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act of 2000 (important for Low Power FM Broadcasting. "Interfecence" with adjacent stations is a contested object. See the "Mitre report")
 * Local Community Radio Act of 2007 (cosponsored by John McCain, go figure...)


 * Technological**
 * The Internet
 * The radio spectrum is licensed at the Federal level by the FCC
 * Projectors and "real" meat-spaces as potential venues for deliberation and collaboration


 * Economic**
 * WTO, etc.
 * Advertisers funding and shaping most media


 * Social**
 * Imaginaries of "activist" and "advocate"
 * General "alienation" from "the political"
 * Assumption by most that the media is pretty much already as socially good as it could be.


 * Political**
 * "Democracy?"
 * Issues on the political table: video franchise reform, community internet, network neutrality, media consolidation.


 * Cultural**
 * Culture of "the Left"
 * Cultural and material experiments of the Situationists and others in "art worlds."


 * Natural**
 * Ecological "strain" (or is it "crisis?") due to industrial production, ability of corporations to externalize damage to the environment, reliance on non-renewable fossil fuels, etc.
 * Environment as medium of benefits and burdens, rewards and risks.