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I Am My Own Focus Group

I have come to the conclusion that I am a marketing anomaly. I should be studied so that marketers understand that there are some very different people out there — and that the Facebook-loving, subscription-hating, texting-during-performances audience member of my age range is NOT me.

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Various Upcoming Grant Deadlines

The Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media is now accepting applications.
Who they fund:
Named to honor singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson, the Fund supports media activism and grassroots organizing by funding the pre-production and distribution of social issue film and video projects and the production and distribution of radio projects, made by local, [...]

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The Art Purist Slumming in Low Capitalist Constructs

As a kid I wanted to be Janet Jackson.

I played the cassette of her Control album until the tape broke, choreographing routines, imaging the day I would enjoy her fame/fortune and say (with her conviction)…“Now I’m all grown up!”

Well, you can imagine my joy when (at nine years old) my dad put me in the [...]

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Who are the New Gatekeepers?

Douglas McLennan, editor of ArtsJournal and author of the blog Diacritical, wants to know how the internet is changing the role of middlemen in the arts:
Power in the mass culture model is controlled by gatekeepers - the TV networks, radio stations, record producers, publishers. They had power because they could afford expensive cameras and studios [...]

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