The Internet Makes Work for Idle Hands by Faris Yakob

[Toby Daniels]

The radical decentralization of the means of cultural production and distribution it has brought about, that I mentioned in the slidecast in my last post, "Social Begins At Home," has changed the very nature of the audience--of what an audience is.

Until very recently, the means of production were in the hands of the few--governments and large corporations. The audience was functionally passive in its reception of ideas--like Victorian children, it was seen and not heard.

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