Pop or Not: Will Cultures Collide?
Hello…
It amazes me how technology defines celebrities these days.
Now you can get minute to minute gossip as it occurs. In the last week, Heath Ledger has circulated the Internet at an incredible rate. Maybe the information wasn’t accurate but it still was impressive how news was dispersed. I even checked Ledger’s entry in wikipedia.com and sure enough, there was an update after a few hours when he was declared deceased.
In a lighter note, the world wide web (WWW) is a legitimate media in which regular people transform into celebrities.
Gone are the 15 minutes of fame. Arriving are video productions and blogging. The pop culture conversation is your home -made videos. Celebrities have been made out of those mini YouTube productions; the buzz word is their screen name.
What happens to them?
Some keep to their Indie style of production, while others get signed. Panic! “At the Disco” built a solid fan base with purevolume.com and myspace.com before signing with a record company. The question lies will the web be the benchmark for popular culture as well as even alt and indie culture?
–Kraig
