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California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Created:August 6, 2006
Latest Update:january 2, 2007
jeannecurran@habermas.org
takata@uwp.edu
The Making of Community: InterdependenceOne reason we choose current events as a stimulus for our discussions and our community outreach is that what is reported reflects what the media believe will attract us, thus paying the costs of advertising, which provides the entertainment, at least theoretically, free to us. The media are, of course, not free to us, for we pay for the advertisement in the cost of the product. And that fits into the capitalist system by charging everyone precisely the same amount, as a percentage of the product cost.
January 2, 2007:
I have lots more to say on this. For example, our discovery in the Fall of 2006 that we could, indeed, create stickers in the manner of Shepard Fairey to use visual bits to attract community interest in the same way graphic artists do in advertisements. Granted that we don't have access to main stream media. That doesn't mean we can't use art to communicate our issues and arguments to our local communities. Big metropolitan areas, like Los Angeles, have been so poorly planned for local communication that it's hard for us to come together in any meaningful way for governance discourse. But we have learned through our Dear Habermas project that we can and do share many interests, and that we need community to generate meaningful discourse on our needs and interests.
I'll come back to this in the Spring 2007 Community Project. . .
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