This week in the first half of the symposium, Adrian went through tips on how to write a critical media essay and how to inventively integrate footnotes as links and so on…
Then the entire second half (perhaps longer than that) was dedicated to one question that was posed from the class: How does The Long Tail affect the music industry.
Despite the symposiums usually being rather one sided or leading to a semantics debate, the discussion responding to this question actually didn’t go off-track. And there were some very relevant ideas to think about.
Media industries on the internet> a scale-free network> this model disrupts physical retail model> The hit market> Big media have to be generalists> Power law> The Long Tail> more sold by the long tail than mass entertainment> Constant change> in a transitional time> Industrial vs. Post-Industrial