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A Model for a Collective Aesthetic Consciousness

A Model for a Collective Aesthetic Consciousness
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Author(s): Sherry Mayo (Westchester Community College, USA)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 14
Source title: Analyzing Art, Culture, and Design in the Digital Age
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Gianluca Mura (Politecnico di Milano University, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8679-3.ch013

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Abstract

During the 20th century, the modern media was born and viewed as an industrial factory-model machine. These powerful media such as film, radio, and television transmitted culture to the passive masses (Enzensberger; 1974). These art forms were divorced of ritual and authenticity and were reproduced to reinforce their prowess (Benjamin, 1936). In the 21st century post-media condition, a process of convergence and evolution toward a social consciousness, facilitated by a many-to-many social network strategy, is underway. Web 2.0 technologies are a catalyst toward an emergence of a collectivist aesthetic consciousness. As the prophecy of a post-industrial society (Bell, 1973) becomes fulfilled, a post-media society emerges whose quest is for knowledge dependent upon economy that barters information. This paper identifies a conceptual model of this recent paradigmatic shift and to identify some of the possibilities that are emerging.

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