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Summarized: <i>Through reality television celebrities don't have to play a role in a sitcom anymore: they themselves became the characters. In the same way, artists spend less time making art and more time displaying their lifestyle as an artist through Facebook. "The affect of Facebook may be why so few artists online actually make much art–because they arenʼt being rewarded for anything so much as the performance of their own personal brand online."</i> | |||
So do these 'new' ways of communication actually influence the reasons to make art? Do we create art just to gather likes on Facebook? | |||
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Transmission is more important than creation. - jl
Summarized: Through reality television celebrities don't have to play a role in a sitcom anymore: they themselves became the characters. In the same way, artists spend less time making art and more time displaying their lifestyle as an artist through Facebook. "The affect of Facebook may be why so few artists online actually make much art–because they arenʼt being rewarded for anything so much as the performance of their own personal brand online."
So do these 'new' ways of communication actually influence the reasons to make art? Do we create art just to gather likes on Facebook? - Jasper