Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 21:07:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: Focus of the List




Adrian asks what the media share; I would say entertainment and corporate
production - and literally, both of these which are of course intertwined,
are driving everything. Beyond that, they both operate (imho between the 
television set and the big /scratch that - small/ screen, differently) 
through diegesis and character identifications; simply, they involve the 
audience member in the seeming fullness of a represented world. Obviously 
"fullness" is questionable, but as virtual reality and other experiments 
cease to _be_ exerpiments, fullness might take on different and even more 
troubling connotations... of which some are visible already on the Inter- 
net - ask any MUDder or MOOer..

Alan



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