Re: [microsound] I want myspace MTV

[devslashnull <dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 11, 2006, at 10:20 AM, Jason Hollis wrote:

>> - what is the cultural/aesthetic intersection of 'places' like  
>> myspace with 'spaces' like microsound
>
> One such intersection, apparently, is threads like these, where some 
> people have input (results as above) and others just want to be 
> elitist and whine about said input. =/

I think more interesting is the cultural intersection between "places" 
like MySpace and .microsound and places like a cafe or club. Or prison. 
My wife teaches high school and she has so many stories about the 
idiotic things people do in "myspace-space" that come home to roost in 
the land of matter. Like making threats, describing in detail ones 
illicit activities of the night before... dumb sh*t like that. Kids are 
getting busted for it. It's as if they believe they are somehow 
anonymous because they call themselves "secret doo-doo" or something. i 
think what is interesting is how the simplicity of constructing this 
"social network" has resulted in an alienation of users from the other 
"layers" of the network (in Lessigs sense of the metaphor). I think 
that this can be dangerous.

>
>
>> - and is the 'enabling' power of social networks real or is it simply 
>> another sort of commodity sold to us through viral advertising?
>
> Obviously it is both.
> Anyone can use these for their own benefit, basement artist or major 
> label, teenybopper or old geezer, therefore they are at least benign 
> if not beneficail.
> More the point, the market has spoken.


Even more to the point... what has that market actually said? What was 
enabled? A time suck which keeps people... even those who do not work 
in front of their computers professionally, glued to it for hours 
updating their profiles and blogs, in their attempts to add friends? 
Grow or perish... standard capitalism in the cyber-social realm? Maybe.

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cheers,

dev




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