The Internet is Saving Culture

The Internet is Saving Culture

While researching what is EU regulating for sharing links ( https://openmedia.org/ and livestream tomorrow 22nd March 5 pm CET here https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/) this article caught my attention.

The article is evidencing the growing amount of people who transform their understanding of the new cyber-physical reality around us. First Renaissance evangelists are creators!

“*But things are turning around; for people of the future, our time may be remembered as a period not of death, but of rejuvenation and rebirth.*

Part of the story is in the art itself. In just about every cultural medium, whether movies or music or books or the visual arts, digital technology is letting in new voices, creating new formats for exploration, and allowing fans and other creators to participate in a glorious remixing of the work. This isn’t new; from blogs to podcasts to YouTube, the last 20 years have been marked by a succession of formats that have led to ever-lower barriers for new and off-the-wall creators.

Yet for much of that time, the business side of culture looked under assault. The internet taught a whole generation that content was not something you really had to pay for. So for years, digital content companies — especially those in the online news business — looked doomed to pursue a scale-only, ad-based business model. They tried to reach tens of millions of readers, viewers or listeners in the hopes of getting pennies in ads per user. Not only was that unsustainable, it was also ruining culture: It left no room for small acts and subtle niches, and it turned everything into overheated clickbait. Things looked gloomy.

But now something surprising has happened.

In the last few years, and with greater intensity in the last 12 months, people started paying for online content. They are doing so at an accelerating pace, and on a dependable, recurring schedule, often through subscriptions. And they’re paying for everything”

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