(WORLD) Great little video comparing social media to the punk movement of the 70s:
Social media is bigger. More pervasive. More powerful. More mainstream.
Or to put another way:
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July 22nd, 2009
‘Let’s piss someone off…’
1 With much of the major hubs controlled by corporates, there’s little that’s punk about it.
2 And, when was ‘quantity’ ever even an acceptable substitute for ‘quality’?
3 Dismiss conventional brand-building activity at your peril.
July 30th, 2009
Punk was the new Arrows at Agincourt.
A fundamental law of nature – or human nature, at least… transformative innovation (as opposed to incremental) that makes the unit-cost of participation cheaper, so a lot more people think “Oooh. I could do that”.
It’s a pattern that repeats – cheap sequencing/sampling gear had the same effect in the late 80s. The Summer of Love was a similar sort of thing in the late 60s. People thought it was a regular once a decade thing… but then suddenly in 1998, nothing happened.
So now it’s time for another one? I don’t think social media is an example of this phenomena so much as an environmental change that makes this once-a-decade flooding of the Nile happen a hell of a lot faster – so fast in fact that it’s now almost a continuum. It all comes down to memetics, and the memetic soup is a hell of a lot faster than it used to be.
So we’ve go the music industry knocked on its side, journalism being knocked on its side, television as advertising being knocked on its side, the police being under permanent scrutiny by Little Brother, my own doctor tells me to self diagnose at this website – in fact every single sphere that deals in information is simply being routed around by people who are saying “I could do that” and doing it. For fun. For meaning.
So um no… Social Media is not the new punk – Social Media is an environmental condition out of which “new punks” are growing… but then again, so are new Woodstocks.
July 31st, 2009
[...] Social Media Is PunkNice little video drawing comparisons between the punk movement in the 70 and the blogging, etc stuff happening now. While I think the video simplifies thing a bit I do agree with this. The DIY nature of online participation is what makes it so important. Anyone can play three chords. Anyone can do a zine. Anyone can start a blog. [...]