David Mathison Interview with Stephen Lendmen of the Republic Broadcasting Network

David Mathison recently spoke with Stephen Lendmen of the Republic Broadcasting Network regarding his new book Be The Media.

Stephen Lendmen received a BA from Harvard in 1956 and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1960.

This interview focused on the ways in which the book helps educators, librarians, journalists, and students promote social change by effectively creating and widely promote their ideas.

It also features a lengthy discussion on the second half of the book, the Community Media Renaissance, which outlines the importance of people owning and controlling the distribution infrastructure, versus allowing corporations to control content creation and distribution.

"This com­mu­nity media renais­sance I describe is exem­pli­fied by peo­ple work­ing together — not nec­es­sar­ily for finan­cial reward but in com­mon pur­pose to build crit­i­cal, open source infra­struc­ture that helps us all become suc­cess­ful. Exam­ples include the Linux oper­at­ing sys­tem, the Fire­fox browser, Wikipedia and Cre­ative Com­mons. Or engaged com­mu­ni­ties of fans help­ing an artist go viral by shar­ing and link­ing to the artist’s work." - David Mathison

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