November 6th Qs – Alex
The degree to which someone can be immersed in any experiential media is purely subjective and may not be effectively resonating with the entirety of its users. That being said, as the technology continues to improve will there come a day where the immersion is so universal that it subsumes traditional media (TV, movies, etc)? Is there room for coexistence between the non-immersive and immersive texts or will we soon have another cassette vs CD type situation on our hands?
(With absolutely no research being done by me) it feels like there is starting to be a revitalization of the “radio drama” style of storytelling through the medium of podcasts. Are these shows signaling a rebirth of a semi-forgotten means of storytelling or is there something entirely different going on here?
I can’t tell if Decentraland is the bone chilling first steps toward a dystopic digital landscape or a hilarious business built around dooping gullible investors. How does the idea of paying absurd amounts of money for digital “real estate” sit with you? Also, what the heck is even happening here? (I don’t have a subscription to bloomberg so it’s hard to get a sense of what’s actually going on with this business. The website is a complete mess of jargon that’s no help at all).
It feels like there is a growing trend of producing shorter and shorter digital content (vines, viral clips, serialbox, twitter) while other digital services are pushing their content to expand temporally (streamers going live for hours on end, YouTube advertising placing preferential treatment to longer videos, the super smash bros fan fiction which is 221 chapters long, and has been receiving updates since 2008). Is there room for a happy medium or will we continue to increasingly see texts being pushed to the extremes of the spectrum?