Social Media Networks Are Music's Curse and Salvation
A new report says the same social media sites that threaten the old-school, sales-based approach will eventually save whatever's left of the music business. Social music may not generate much revenue now, but monetization's effectiveness must -- and will -- improve.
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]