Week 4

Digital media is just the storage of all media in the world.  The entire world is connected by one system call the internet and with that system, anything can be sent and received in a matter of minutes.  Media has been around and changed especially after the invention of the printing press, but the global internet has changed it completely in all ways more than any other device.  Every piece of media is not on the internet and can viewed by anyone with access to the internet.

Because of this, there is a rise in notoriety from the internet.  Everything can be accessed. Anyone's work, art work, music or film.  There is a problem in copyright issues including the fact that someone can downloads a movie or music for free instead of paying for it, which is illegal, and has been a problem for musical artists.  Because of the digital age, every person can access any music and take it for themselves.  I don't know how much money is put into the purchase of music discs, but there are some bands such as the Avett Brothers who encourage the free download of music, because what is worth the money in their opinion is their live performances.  The band Radiohead placed their CD on their website and asked people how much they wanted to pay for their disc and that is how much they could pay.

Creativity is less defined in my opinion now days.  There is not much original work as anyone can just take footage off youtube or any other site and put it together with something else in a video or photoshop file so that it can look cool with other pictures.  Is this creative?  There are many who think so or just use this as a tool for playing around with friend's pictures, but I don't believe it is a serious art.  If the Mona Lisa painting had been just a compilation of many other pictures or paintings, instead of Da Vinci's hard work at painting, it wouldn't be as notable now days.  Art is suppose to be original instead of taken images put together in order to act like it is original.  A good use of photoshop and taken media is for propaganda.  It can be used to make signs or promote someone who is a key figure in society.  Or exploit someone's failings to gain aid by other people who would see the edited picture.