Re: [Pen-l] Late Bloomer; Spinning into Butter

[Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,
On Mar 24, 2009, at 6:12 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:

> These response are not incompatible with my query and provisional
> respnse. They describe what the movie (book, etc) does for the
> viewer/reader privately. That is fine, & in fact Any response in these
> terms is acceptable. Can one respond to the question in terms of the
> social order?

Doyle;
Ignoring the focus on 'movies', the question in an economic sense  
currently is whether or not content is 'interactive'.  Interactivity  
spawns 'networking content' in media.  Quoting from the NY Times;

March 23, 2009
Denis Dyack of Silicon Knights on how cloud computing will impact games
By DENIS DYACK, VentureBeat
..."Anyone who creates videos games understands that its key  
differentiator from other entertainment media is its interactivity.  
Video games are non-linear entertainment in the sense that traditional  
narratives, as in film, novels and television, are always experienced  
in predetermined sequence, and repeat experiences are the same in  
structure. While with video games one cannot predict the order of  
events because of interactivity.? Therefore,? traditional mediums are,  
by contrast, linear entertainment.

Technology is commoditizing the value of traditional linear  
entertainment towards zero. Soon, all of these traditional media forms  
— books, movies, TV, even music — will have little or no value as  
commodities.? This is a fundamental economic shift, and we should be  
ready for a decline of these traditional industries to a fraction of  
their former selves. These declines will be more severe than that of  
the auto industries, because today we still cannot download cars (we  
are not living in sci-fi author Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age, where  
even diamonds can be reproduced as commodities, yet)."...

Doyle;
Asking what a book/novel does, or movie has to be asked in terms of  
what Denis Dyack maintains above.  Otherwise the 'value' of a single  
book in the 'printing mode' of culture miss leads us about 'value'  
social meaning, private meaning et al.  In other words the value of  
Wikipedia over a commercial encyclopedia is...?

Or as Dyack refers above to the 'single' commodity object of a culture  
production process.  An object fits in a re-use value interactivity  
network of internet connectivity so to speak.  Something measurable in  
some sense about what a cultural object does outside of private  
pleasures.  Perhaps always present but not for technical reasons  
important in creating value in a commodity during the 'printing'  
copying era of media production and consumption.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor_______________________________________________
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