a) How do file sharing, online downloading and the ‘networking’ of new material change the way music is consumed?
File sharing and online downloading and networking has changed the way music is consumed because like the Arctic Monkeys who posted their music on Myspace, it means new music can be discovered by people before record labels have signed them up. Downloading must in some way affect the sales of record as most people download using something other than itunes where you have to pay for each song, people tend to use uTorrent which is free.
b) How and why could any band ‘make it’ through social networking/content sharing sites?
Again bands can make it through social networking/ content sharing sites because now record companies are looking online for new and up and coming bands to see what is out there and what people like at the current time.
c) Has/will this change popular music?
I think popular music is forever changing, as there is always new music being created and played to the public, weather its online or in a club.
d) Will we still need media companies in future if people can produce and distribute cultural products directly?
I think we will still need media companies in the future as bands and artists need the backing and guidance from people who know how the industry works, however you will have people producing and distributing their own music like we do today.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Hi beth, pick questions to answer that let you 'pick up the ball and run with it'. Don't post on your 'first thoughts' in relation to the questions we want you to bear in mind when you're reading, rather ask "so what?" of your initial answer and post in the light of the answer to these 'second thoughts' that you have.
ReplyDeleteDo you think issues of copyright, produserism and community have relevance to the questions you've chosen to answer?