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The Cult of the Amateur

The Cult of the Amateur. Digital Media and Virtual Culture 10/24/07. Is the Internet killing our culture?. Is the Internet good or bad for consumers of culture? Is the Internet good or bad for creators of culture? Is the Internet good or bad for the cultural economy?. Cultural Gatekeepers.

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The Cult of the Amateur

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  1. The Cult of the Amateur Digital Media and Virtual Culture 10/24/07

  2. Is the Internet killing our culture? • Is the Internet good or bad for consumers of culture? • Is the Internet good or bad for creators of culture? • Is the Internet good or bad for the cultural economy?

  3. Cultural Gatekeepers • “Today’s under-25 generation should be more focused on the laborious work of learning about the world than in expressing their often inchoate and ill-informed opinions.” • “Don’t trust anyone over 30” • “Don’t trust anyone under 50”

  4. Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1937) • “In principle a work of art has always been reproducible.” • “Mechanical reproduction of a work of art, however, represents something new.”

  5. Aura • “Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be. This unique existence of the work of art determined the history to which it was subject throughout the time of its existence.” • “…that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art.”

  6. “The Arcades Project” (Benjamin) • 1927-40; unfinished • …a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources, arranging them in thirty-six categories with descriptive rubrics such as "Fashion," "Boredom," "Dream City," "Photography," "Catacombs," "Advertising," "Prostitution," "Baudelaire," and "Theory of Progress." His central preoccupation is what he calls the commodification of things… (HUP, 1999)

  7. The Wisdom of Crowds (James Surowiecki) • “…large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.” • The “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” syndrome

  8. Global Digital Journalism • Google Tech Talks – • http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8718030833082093824 • “Global Digital Journalism: A Transformative Moment” – Joyce Barnathan • International Center for Journalists - http://www.icfj.org/

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