"prosumer" is not a word for actor+audience, it's a word for producer+consumer, which is about product and consumption, rather than relationship & experience.
i have long hunted for a good word for this - for audiences that are participating in a really creative way in a work - & i don't just mean the "interactivity" of pressing a button or something like that. i mean co-authoring in a way that they can insert their own creativity & alter/influence the work. i have written about the "intermedial audience", as a way to understand the role of the audience in cyberformance & potentially other digital art contexts. > The concept of intermediality offers a way to approach an audience > that is as unfinished and (r)evolutionary as the work it is engaging > with. It upgrades the passive spectator to an integral position within > cyberformance, without relinquishing the fundamental gap between > performer and spectator. At the same time, intermediality acknowledges > the mental multitasking that cyberformance demands of its audience and > the paradigm shift that is forced onto those more accustomed to the > traditional codes of audience behaviour. (this was written 8 years ago & perhaps needs updating now given then increased possibilities for audience participation/contribution.) i don't think the intermedial audience are "players of equal measure", & i'm not sure if this really exists (when an artist or group has conceived the work or created the context for it except maybe in gaming?). h : ) On 4/03/15 5:02 28AM, Karl Heinz Jeron wrote: > Hello, > there is a word for actor and audience in the social media realm: > prosumer! > And hey if at all this is postdramatic theatre. > Followers equals audience? I don't think so. > > Cheers > KH > > 2015-03-04 0:05 GMT+01:00 isabel brison <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > > Hello, > > I can't really agree: > > > When we sit in the theater, we are essentially a receiver of > information that is passed from the stage to the audience. But > in the world of social media, we are all actors on the stage: > the fourth wall is erased, the proscenium dissolves, there are > no lights to turn down, the suspension of disbelief is > revised, as information (or lines) are passed not just from > the one to many, but from everyone to everyone. > > > Most of us are audience most of the time, as actors need audience > to be actors. And what's the difference between a screen and a > stage? except that on a screen it is not always considered bad > manners to join in the act. > And some of us deliberately choose to be audience, others act > occasionally, some act as a hobby and others professionally ( > though I'm not sure that acting is a good analogy at all for > social interaction - there should be a word for actor and audience > all in one, and possibly for combinations of different amounts of > one and the other). > > > > how do we insert ourselves into this story, not as receivers, > but as players of equal measure, > > > Tweet! Retweet! Respond! - Seriously, that account only has 14 > followers. How can it act at all in the absence of audience? Is it > a bad actor? If we're all actors then how many of us are bad > actors and should consider a change of carreer? > > Oh and a funny thing: I followed the link above and it gave me an > error. It's really @The_People_Came > <https://twitter.com/The_People_Came>. Was that on purpose I wonder? > > Cheers > > Isabel - semi-professional lurker > > > > -- > http://isabelbrison.com > > http://tellthemachines.com > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- helen varley jamieson [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.talesfromthetowpath.net http://www.upstage.org.nz
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