Communication and Media
Modern media landscape has caught up in many ways in the modern era. With new high speed communication satellites its no longer impossible for Foundation state owned media to air on Earth. Yet limitations both physical, stylistic, and governmental continue to exist.
Media is widely available as is cross solar connections thanks to high speed-connection satellites running in the very low inferred and high end microwave frequencies. Yet while the system is more connected, light speed remains the greatest limitation to communication. Especially in the Celestial Connection. Shows airing on earth will be behind by 30 minutes on mars purely due to the time delay of wave based communication. In the outer system it is often easier to record a message, politely request it sit on the soonest departing ship for your intended location and then it play off the ships own censors once its through the warp gate. As such live chats are more localized.
Also effecting its availability is legality. While ships in orbit can't be effectively blocked from picking up any signals they wish with the right radar on the surface of worlds media can be controlled. The Institute for Cultural Evolution in the foundation keeps anything deemed ineffectual and unhealthy media from playing in Foundation space. Meanwhile the MDF's Office of Public Relations censors and punishes all media critical of the MDF.
However space is too large to effectively patrol and control. Recorded Broadcasts, games, comics, movies, full submersion VR experiences are all very wildly available and popular regardless of its legality in certain spaces.
Space has promoted a return of recorded media in popularity as live media becomes difficult, however radio especially A.I. run radio is popular in space. An AI can be instantiated across multiple locations broadcasting from a loan unpopulated satellite. Effective A.I. facades also allow them to capture the energy and popularity of a life radio host. One can find multiple instances of Quincy the Space Cowgirl on almost only part of space playing out the news, commentary, popular Neo-electronic, Station Punk, and Martian Folk.
Access
Media is widely available as is cross solar connections thanks to high speed-connection satellites running in the very low inferred and high end microwave frequencies. Yet while the system is more connected, light speed remains the greatest limitation to communication. Especially in the Celestial Connection. Shows airing on earth will be behind by 30 minutes on mars purely due to the time delay of wave based communication. In the outer system it is often easier to record a message, politely request it sit on the soonest departing ship for your intended location and then it play off the ships own censors once its through the warp gate. As such live chats are more localized.
Also effecting its availability is legality. While ships in orbit can't be effectively blocked from picking up any signals they wish with the right radar on the surface of worlds media can be controlled. The Institute for Cultural Evolution in the foundation keeps anything deemed ineffectual and unhealthy media from playing in Foundation space. Meanwhile the MDF's Office of Public Relations censors and punishes all media critical of the MDF.
However space is too large to effectively patrol and control. Recorded Broadcasts, games, comics, movies, full submersion VR experiences are all very wildly available and popular regardless of its legality in certain spaces.
Space has promoted a return of recorded media in popularity as live media becomes difficult, however radio especially A.I. run radio is popular in space. An AI can be instantiated across multiple locations broadcasting from a loan unpopulated satellite. Effective A.I. facades also allow them to capture the energy and popularity of a life radio host. One can find multiple instances of Quincy the Space Cowgirl on almost only part of space playing out the news, commentary, popular Neo-electronic, Station Punk, and Martian Folk.
Social Impact
Foundation
Foundation art is fundamentally known for being excellent and controlled. While foundation media is widely popular often creating the best dramas and documentaries, and animated productions, within the high arts it is critical of it's controlled nature. Messages are highly controlled, propaganda creepily subtle, but present and effective. Within the art sphere AI edited creations ensure while a human touch is involved, to some soulless perfection dominates. Foundation music tends to deal in traditional arts both western and most popular eastern. Cultural artifacts often deal with Shinto Buddhist aesthetics or Indonesia islamic art.
United Earth Sphere While earth media is known for it's lessor production value, in the high art sphere its often lauded as being "Real" traditional movies and plays are popular and often deal with humanity and poverty. As freedom of media and press is enshrined in the UES charter it is also known for being the most wild and varied. Musically many find a lot of value in Ukraine-Pop, Hong Kong Eco-rap, or Kinshasa Neu-Dubstep.
Martian Defense Front Martian arts are a constant class of aesthetics. Pro-military games and movies dominate the theaters and musically Martian Folk is Extremely popular within and without the red planet. Taking a lot from old Americana music, it keeps a pro-MDF but often includes in Martian Folk artists based out of mars or ones that risk jail time, protests about poverty and racism within the state. While the state promotes traditional realistic arts, colorful street art covers N-Pole and Martian Electro-punk is extremely popular and deeply repressed.
Celestial Connection CC arts vary wildly as their member-states. While media is tightly controlled on Titan, Europa is famous for having the most hard cutting and sharp journalism in the system. Io is famous for a variety of cultural artifacts. Some known to have more artistic value, then entertainment value. Many VR games from Io focus on putting you in the seat of moral and empathetic experiences, and often talked about in art circles. Culturally Io and Europa dominate the media landscape. Europa's own Anadia and A.I.: a news program that focuses on Anadia, a empathetic Europan, and an A.I. Called Stats focused on pure data and analysis and their back and forth on the issues of the system, is the most trusted new source in the system according to polls.
United Earth Sphere While earth media is known for it's lessor production value, in the high art sphere its often lauded as being "Real" traditional movies and plays are popular and often deal with humanity and poverty. As freedom of media and press is enshrined in the UES charter it is also known for being the most wild and varied. Musically many find a lot of value in Ukraine-Pop, Hong Kong Eco-rap, or Kinshasa Neu-Dubstep.
Martian Defense Front Martian arts are a constant class of aesthetics. Pro-military games and movies dominate the theaters and musically Martian Folk is Extremely popular within and without the red planet. Taking a lot from old Americana music, it keeps a pro-MDF but often includes in Martian Folk artists based out of mars or ones that risk jail time, protests about poverty and racism within the state. While the state promotes traditional realistic arts, colorful street art covers N-Pole and Martian Electro-punk is extremely popular and deeply repressed.
Celestial Connection CC arts vary wildly as their member-states. While media is tightly controlled on Titan, Europa is famous for having the most hard cutting and sharp journalism in the system. Io is famous for a variety of cultural artifacts. Some known to have more artistic value, then entertainment value. Many VR games from Io focus on putting you in the seat of moral and empathetic experiences, and often talked about in art circles. Culturally Io and Europa dominate the media landscape. Europa's own Anadia and A.I.: a news program that focuses on Anadia, a empathetic Europan, and an A.I. Called Stats focused on pure data and analysis and their back and forth on the issues of the system, is the most trusted new source in the system according to polls.
Complexity
The main new media popular is full dive VR. Many games are full dive experiences now, where implants allow you to step directly into the experiences. Many movies allow for you to simulate a classic 21st century theatre experiences. Plays often sit you in the audience, and talk shows make you one of the faces in the crowd. Yet these are rarely true live experiences.
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