Comments on: Suspension Of Belief https://booksquare.com/suspension-of-belief/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=suspension-of-belief Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:07:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Booksquare https://booksquare.com/suspension-of-belief/#comment-144554 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.

]]> By: n.l. belardes https://booksquare.com/suspension-of-belief/#comment-144464 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?

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