Comments on: Suspension Of Belief http://booksquare.com/suspension-of-belief/ Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:31:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Booksquare http://booksquare.com/suspension-of-belief/comment-page-1/#comment-144554 Booksquare Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:07:10 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/09/04/2125/#comment-144554 It all comes down to story -- and I think the bad videos are a temporary phase (that will last my entire lifetime). As people become more sophisticated about interacting with online media, quality matters. And quality is dependent upon creating a believable universe for the consumer to enter -- if only for a short period of time. This is clearly an experiment at creating some kind of fictional world -- it does not feel real -- so believability is the key. Unless it is a sociological experiment, in which case, a lot of us are willing to be lab rats. It all comes down to story — and I think the bad videos are a temporary phase (that will last my entire lifetime). As people become more sophisticated about interacting with online media, quality matters. And quality is dependent upon creating a believable universe for the consumer to enter — if only for a short period of time.

This is clearly an experiment at creating some kind of fictional world — it does not feel real — so believability is the key. Unless it is a sociological experiment, in which case, a lot of us are willing to be lab rats.

]]> By: n.l. belardes http://booksquare.com/suspension-of-belief/comment-page-1/#comment-144464 n.l. belardes Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:12:50 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/09/04/2125/#comment-144464 If people are entertained what does it matter? The Web is just simply an illusion: the Internet, good fiction, bad fiction, videos... None of it is reality. Some kid starts selling office chairs through a Web Portal. He has some skills; he builds a site that makes him look like a large company. Next thing you know he's got furniture piled up in his house to sell. Next thing you know after that he's got a 10 million dollar company... Whether it's a chair or a streaming video fiction or non-fiction tale, if people want the product, then there lies the value... on an artist level the value may come from just creating the art. It could be a sociology project for class for all we know... but that doesn't matter... or does it? If people are entertained what does it matter? The Web is just simply an illusion: the Internet, good fiction, bad fiction, videos… None of it is reality. Some kid starts selling office chairs through a Web Portal. He has some skills; he builds a site that makes him look like a large company. Next thing you know he’s got furniture piled up in his house to sell. Next thing you know after that he’s got a 10 million dollar company… Whether it’s a chair or a streaming video fiction or non-fiction tale, if people want the product, then there lies the value… on an artist level the value may come from just creating the art. It could be a sociology project for class for all we know… but that doesn’t matter… or does it?

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