Tag Archives: sellaband

Africa Unsigned: the Professionalizing of User Input

Erik van Bemmelen | 30 September 2010, 2:49 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

In the past years the Internet has been flooded with user generated content. The theory on new media has subsequently been flooded with research into this phenomenon, that is commonly centered around the web 2.0 concept. This theorizing of the beautiful possibilities and promises of freedom on the Internet has become almost tiresome. What I want to do here, is…

Is Crowd Funding Viable? Best and Worst Practices

Jidi Guo | 27 September 2010, 3:10 pm | tags: , , , , ,

During PICNIC 2010 last week I attended the session Crowdfunding: The Financial Solution for the Creative Industry, it was an interesting presentation/discussion with crowdfunding experts who shared their best practices and visions of the future. Discussions emerged on how to create better (financial) solutions for the creative industry. Roy Cremers and Valentine van der Lande were two…

How can Social Network Sites help artists to make money?

Jelle Kamsma | 01 October 2009, 1:00 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

Big record companies like to blame the internet for the decreasing amount of albums that are being sold in the conventional shops. It seems to me that one of the main characteristics of big conglomerates like the record industry is their desire to resist change. They like to keep the status quo even if this means missing some great opportunities…

Possibilities and threats for popstars in Web 2.0

Arno de Natris | 02 September 2009, 12:17 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Popstars have an economic function, like filmstars. They promise a performance. They are the profit makers of the entertainment industries. From an ideological point of view, popstars maintain a myth of meritocracy. The industries and the stars themselves want to show that stardom stands for freedom and wealth and present this as positive, something everyone must have and therefore, everyone…