Value Based Medium

In Plugged in Magazine (August 2005) Tom Neven states: 

The “linear’ age is gone, and the way teens interact with today’s decentralized digital media affects the way they look at the world. Modern communications are non-linear, disjointed, image-based and entertainment centered. The information they pass along is unregulated and unevaluated. If, as cultural commentator Marshall McLuhan stated nearly 40 years ago ‘the medium is the message‘, then the message is this: Anything goes.”

For those who don’t believe that “anything goes”, FACTS proposes a value based information and resource medium. This medium is networked, digital, non-linear, image and text based, value centered, evaluated and regulated. See comparison below:

Anything Goes	Pluralistic Value Networks
Decentralized	Value Based Networks
Digital	Digital and Face to Face
Non-linear	Non-linear and Indexed
Disjointed	Structured Networks
Image-based	People, Image and text based
Entertainment Centered	People and Value Centered
Unevaluated	Evaluated
Unregulated	Moderated

Participants in FACTSnet Blogs endeavor to reverse societal trends in a positive value direction.  See video on  A Lost Generation (PDF) and Values of the Counter Culture of the 60s Revisited