Wirelessing the World: The Battle Over CWNs

CWNs are Community Wireless Networks that are networks set up in a community. They allow for open freely accessible , non proprietary system of internet access used to have small networks. They are a way for residents to build resources in tehir communities,saqve money, and free themselves form the worst excesses of profit-driven business models.CNWs help bridge the "Digital divide" by eliminating one facet of the problem, and even help bridge the divide between resource rich and resource poor areas by providing low-cost alternatives.
There are a number of barriers to market entry that major wireless companies set up to protect their monopolies . The first thing is that they buy small technologies that they know will become big before they do so that when they do become big they can keep all of the money andmaintain their monopoly. Another thing they do is offer bundles packages. Theyoffer telephone,internet and television services together to you think that it is a better deal when in actuality it not much better, only cheaper for a time. Another thing that companies do is offer technology that is interoperable. This means that the technology can be used in a wide range of devices but still being controlled by the company.
Corporate consolidation and the early buying of technologies resultes in fewer companies comtrolling more of the wireless mareket share. If companies buy all of the small technologies before they get big and populate they cabnn buy them cheapy and when they do get popular they have the right and keep all of the money for themselves. This results in fewer and fewer wireless companies being offered.

Government and the economy

4. What needs be changed to allow the creation of a "sustainable economy"?
To allow the creation of a more sustainable economy, we need to do a number of things. First we need to start making more of our products here at home in the US instead of importing much of our consumer products. If we created more products at home, then we would use less money outsourcing our jobs. Next, we need to creat more reuseable form of energy. We need to use things like solar, power, nuclear power and wind power, instead of using gas and propain. Next, our government needs to work on a longterm plan to help balance the economy. With the stock market doing so bad and the prices of consumer goods up, the government needs to comeup with a long term plan to help everyone.

How you can help the FCC- Reading response

1. Do broadcasters use radio and television to quickly and effectively respond to the local communities needs and interests? Give examples to support your answer.

I think that broadcasters do you radio and television to quickly and effectively respond to the local communities and interest to some extent. I think that they are usually on top of alerting people to important information however they aren't always geared towards the correct audience. For example if a News organization reports a story about an outbreak of a virus, people watching or listening to the report who aren't from that area may get worried and take action so . I think that there is a need for more local news outlets.
A way that broad casters do effectively respond if they report on something that is relevant the whole audience. For example, If the report on how the stock markets plummeted that day, that's news that going to effect every one regardless of where you live.

2. Are there certain kinds of local programming (Public Media Values) that should be available, but are not being provided by broadcasters? what could some examples of these be?

There are certain types of programing that should be available that arent being provided by their broadcasters. One type would be an outlet for local media such as music, enviornaental and social group to allow they vioces and opinions to be heard by the community that they may not have had teh chance to do before. The author says that if the bigt companies are going to come into the small towns and tear up the streats and disrupt life, then the should have access to channels to have their voices be heard by their community.

3. What could the Federal Communication Commission do to promote localism in broadcasting? Explain three of these examples of public-service-oriented projects that are already in process across the US.

One thing that the FCC could do to promote localism in broadcasting, is to have " Lacalism Hearings" in town accross the US giving people the chance to voice their concerns to the FCC. Another thing that the FCC could do, aside form the hearings, is set up local offices where people can go and give opinions with out going to the actual FCC offices. The last this that the FCC is doing is giving more Local organization channels on TV and radio so they can get their vioce out there.

Extra

What is the "spectrum" that the authors refer to?
Spectrum refers to public airwaves. Public airwaves are the ways that people get their information whether it be TV, Radio, Internet or some other kind of outlet.

McChesney's critique and Current Campaigns

McChesney talks about how news outlets and media are driven be profit motives. He also talks about how media can be driven by the deregulated by their ownership. He also talks about how corporate media will set us free. Todays campaigns are also aiding the profit motives. They pay news outlets money to run ads and reports on news for their campaign. Political campigns are also associated with certain news companies. for example Fox news is usually associated with the GOP and MSNBC is usually associated with Democrates. The media is responsible for airing the negative campaign aids the the candidates release. So The current political campaigns are very similar to the critiques that McChesney is discussing in chapter 1.

CAE-Steve Kurtz

I believe that this case with Steve Kurtz is a very interesting one. First, the direction that the case went and the extent that it was taken was a little extreme. I understand that Kurtz didnt want to take a plea deal for something that he didn't do, however from what it said, 4 years is a little extreme for something that should have taken a couple of months. If it were anyone else, i dont know if it would have been handled any differently because how would the cops know just by walking in on the scene the extent of the resources that Kurtz had. So, no i don't think it would have been any different for anyone else.
I think that the fact that Kurtz had the bacteria and he didn't have any type of medical clearance to posses the specimen, didn't help his case given the fact that he wasn't allowed to have them anyway.
I do believe that if the government looked at the whole issue and not just the bacteria and all the negative things found in his house, then he would have been cleared of the charges.
In the end, I think like he said , this has made himself and the CAE more motivated . Also, I believe that what he was doing was right b/c he was trying to inform people about products that contain genetic material since the companies weren't doing any tests themselves.I also believe that by him dragging it out prevented the government for setting a precedent from being able to rail road any amateur just for simply being interested in the wellbeing of all humans

Cult of the amateur quiz

1984 (Version 2.0)

There have been a number of results due to the sophistication of technology allowing individuals to collect personal information about others. The most obvious one that i can think of right off the bat is the use of Parasite programs by hackers to monitor the internet activities of other people. The hackers use programs to see: what sites are being visited, credit card information and interests just by hacking into someones computer without them knowing or having any idea that someone is watching. This allows people to steal identities and personal information to help themselves gain access to something or somewhere. This also allows hackers to obtain information to online bank records, personal email, as well as all types of password protected information to be freely viewed just by using a parasite program.
I dont know if this is true or not but i think that the programs(if there are programs) should be illegal. Hackers may be writing the programs themselves or there are programs that are sold. But I question how they even came about. I do know that some families or even school use programs such as these to monitor children while they are on the computer and I think that its fine for those reasons, but using the program with in intent to do harm is just not right and should be illegal.