In the age of mechanical reproduction
After posting Where’s the passion in IT journalism, those who know themediaslut has been asking her if she is stirring shit or being too cynical about the Singapore IT media industry.
themediaslut says "neither".
themediaslut posted the entry because she is concerned of the disappearing "aura" of IT journalism in this age of "mechanical production".
From Chris Anderson’s "The Long Tail: Why the future of business is selling less of more" , the following state resonates themediaslut’s feeling.
"Emphasizing the examples of photography and film, along with recorded rather than performed music, (Marxist philosopher Walter) Benjamin worried that the "mechanical reproduction of art changes the reaction of the massess toward art. The reactionary attitude toward a Picasso painting changes into the progressive reaction toward a Chaplin movie… The conventional is uncitically enjoyed, and the truely new is criticized with aversion."
Is IT journalism here taking the same route?
