DIY: mws media Style
mws media advocates and supports the DIY (do it yourself) ethic.
What Is DIY?
"DIY" stands for "Do It Yourself." While there are many different ways to elaborate this, and many opinions as to when DIY was first defined as a philosophy and movement, mws media believes in the following:
- Purity of vision - Create the art you want, how you want. Place an emphasis on the quality of the content over flashy, polished presentation and packaging.
- Principled expression - Never abandon your personal principles for exposure or fortune. It is better to reach a smaller audience than turn your back on your beliefs.
- Self-education - Teach yourself, and never stop learning. Build on what has come before.
- All art is valid - Everyone is creative. In this information age, there is an audience for everything, and that audience is the sole arbitrator of value in art.
- We are all peers - You are no better than your audience or your collegues. There is no celebrity in DIY. The people enjoying your creativity are creators themselves.
- Trust your audience - Ask for and accept their support. Reject the temptation to restrict their access to your creativity, and never break your covenant with them.
- Serve the community - Doing it yourself should never mean going it alone. Make mentoring, service, and giving back a major component of your approach to creativity.
Driven By The DIY Ethic
At mws media, we approach everything through our interpretation of the DIY ethic. We are especially interested in...
- neopatronage
- the merit economy
- disintermediation
- social networks and community
- network neutrality
- fair copyright and patent legislation
- alternatives to digital rights management
...and other DIY-friendly concepts.
mws media's mission is to encourage DIY, independent creative endeavors, because doing it yourself should never mean going it alone.