The New Interactive Engaged Museum
“While museums have long strived to be welcoming places as well as havens of learning, social media is turning them into virtual community centers.”
“While museums have long strived to be welcoming places as well as havens of learning, social media is turning them into virtual community centers.”
“How does the solitary writer attract attention in the age of mass culture? One answer is to mobilise the tools of mass culture and exploit social media.”
A.O. Scott: “My complaint, really, is about the peculiar and growing irrelevance of world cinema in American movie culture. … As fashion, gaming, pop music, social media and just about everything else have combined to shrink the world and bridge gaps of culture and taste, American movie audiences seem to cling to a cautious, isolationist … Continue reading “Alas for All the Fantastic Foreign Films That Americans Never Even Notice”
“The award-winning musical about the Wizard of Oz’s witches announced this week that any fan caught recording West End hit, Wicked, will be banned from all future performances. The fact that this was announced through social media – Facebook and Twitter – serves as a bittersweet irony. Only last week, executive producer Michael McCabe admitted … Continue reading ““Wicked” Cracks Down On Pirates (But Should It?)”
“Ai described his evolution from an artist to an activist as ‘a very natural act’ and said that social media are ‘like water and air, but in China we can’t even talk about it.’ When asked if he fears not being allowed to reenter the country, the artist replied: ‘Nothing can silence me as long … Continue reading “Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Discusses His Digital Activism”
“Today, the peanut gallery, digitally enabled by social media, is casting real-time shadows onto the screen of popular culture. Television, historically an extremely passive way of consuming media, could become something else, a hybrid form of professionally produced content and crowd-sourced comments.”
“The students will expand The Post and Courier’s “Spoleto Today” staff by writing for print editions and producing online pieces to include video and audio components. They also will communicate with festival audiences through social media, including Twitter and Facebook, during the May 28-June 13 festival.”
“While museums have been experimenting with the Web for years, these projects have often consisted of little more than an exhibit photo gallery or online guestbook. In recent years, however, the rise of social media has given Web users the technological wherewithal to play a more active role in shaping the direction of museum collections.”
“In the Old World of distribution, filmmakers hand over all the rights to their work, ceding control to companies that might soon lose interest in their new purchase … In the New World, filmmakers maintain full control over their work from beginning to end … The Old World has commercials, newspapers ads and the mass audience. The … Continue reading “Indie Filmmakers Are Doin’ It For Themselves (Distribution)”
“The Skylight Opera Theatre continues to stagger under the weight of the public relations disaster in the wake of the firing of artistic director Bill Theisen on June 16. The social media, letter writing and e-mail campaigns to reverse that decision have maintained momentum.” The company’s only hope may rest in the man it fired, … Continue reading “To Survive, Skylight Opera May Need Aid Of A.D. It Fired”