Remote control : the rise of eletronic cultural policy
By: VAIDHYANATHAN, Siva
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, January 2005The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science 597, p. 122-133Abstract: Since the early 1990s, the United States has benn formulating, executing, and imposing a form of "electronic cultural policy." This phrase means two things: a stategenerated set of polices to encourage or mandate design standards for electronic devices and dictate a perticular set of cultural choices; and the cultural choices themselves, wich have been embedded in the design and software of electronic goods. The goal of electronic cultural policy has been to encourage and enable "remote control", chifting decisions over the use of content from the user to the vendor. The intended macro effects of such micro policies ate antidemocratic. Their potential has created the possibility of a whole new set of forms of cultural domination by a handful of powerful global instutions. Yet so far, the actual consequences of these policies have been different from those intended, igniting activism and disobedience on a global scale.
Since the early 1990s, the United States has benn formulating, executing, and imposing a form of "electronic cultural policy." This phrase means two things: a stategenerated set of polices to encourage or mandate design standards for electronic devices and dictate a perticular set of cultural choices; and the cultural choices themselves, wich have been embedded in the design and software of electronic goods. The goal of electronic cultural policy has been to encourage and enable "remote control", chifting decisions over the use of content from the user to the vendor. The intended macro effects of such micro policies ate antidemocratic. Their potential has created the possibility of a whole new set of forms of cultural domination by a handful of powerful global instutions. Yet so far, the actual consequences of these policies have been different from those intended, igniting activism and disobedience on a global scale.
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