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...It’s now more and more possible to join a niche community that’s built around common taste in some esoteric form of cultural consumption,” Kaufman says. As the volume and variety of multimedia content available on any computer across the globe increases every day, artists within these enclaves gain the ability to distribute their work to anyone with a keyboard. “Rock bands are just as likely to emerge through self-promotion via MySpace or YouTube as they are through major record companies,” Kaufman says...
...Voice. Through reader comments on The Voice’s website and related blogs, the publication seeks to create a consistent dialogue between its print and digital forms, Flanzraich says. The Voice also recently began a partnership with Harvard-Radcliffe Television to provide a significant amount of online video content...
Older student publications have also been looking to new media as a way of expanding the type of content they include. The Harvard Advocate, the oldest continuously published college literary magazine in the country, recently began putting together a DVD insert to be distributed with their next quarterly issue. “We want to facilitate the publication of media that students are working hard on and producing in really great and creative ways but that never otherwise had a chance to circulate on a larger scale across campus or even within the Harvard community,” says Thalassa...
...film, animation, sound art, musical composition, and interactive computer-generated art. The Advocate is modeling its DVD on the Wholphin DVD Magazine, a quarterly distribution of short films published by McSweeney’s. Yet even with this template in mind, Raasch says the DVD’s content is still very much...
...format, allowing for an immersive viewing experience in the gallery and, through the Wiki, a more informational element that can be explored and edited from any computer. Likewise, student groups like The Advocate have used new media to allow for expansion into new formats so that different types of content can be shared with the Harvard community. The nebulous nature of new media may make it difficult to address in structured academic study, but the far-reaching potential of digital media continues to bring forth new forms of artistic composition, distribution, and discovery. —Staff writer Jeff...