For the last two weeks at work, my internship in the Athletics Office has consisted of me gathering data for a new Millsaps Athletics Web Site. The website is new and more creative than the only website because the browser can access live game feeds from the new website. While this has been a minor "little-c" creative experiance, it still has excited me because we plan to make additions to the web site later on in the semester to make it even better/more original.
Today in class we talked about Csikszentmihalyi's "sociocultural model" of creativity, and were asked to bring in a Person-Field-Domain model. Mine was Kayne West, drawing on the awe I had experianced while watching him perform in Atlanta just months past. I identified the Field as the talent agents, managers, record company producers, Hip-Hop Magazines (Rolling Stone and Vibe) and the overall listening public. These serve as the "gatekeepers" to the Hip-Hop Domain. The "gatekeepers", as we discussed in class, are seemingly becoming extinct in the music industry because of MySpace.com, Facebook, and YouTube. The ways that one can optain music is endless, and just about anyone can get people to listen to their music though the internet.
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this is a very interesting topic and i agree completely. it takes so much more to put on concerts and producing labels and making tours happen than we realize. the similar thing in technology is happening with ebay and my dads auction company. just as artists have to jump on the ban wagon and get with the new technology such as myspace, facebook, youtube; so do auctioneers all over the world. the problem in the auction industry however, is no one wants to come out to a real, live auction anymore, because their is now internet available for them to buy and sell on.
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