yes, i agree randall :)

On 5/03/15 1:20 33PM, Randall Packer wrote:
> >>>> "i mean co-authoring in a way that they can insert their own
> creativity & alter/influence the work.”
>
> @Helen: I am still interested in the idea that social media (and that
> includes this list) is in fact an intermedial exchange & process of
> co-authorship, that we are in fact, together,
> authoring/constructing/generating a collective body of knowledge via
> this exchange. If you were to go back and read through the archives of
> NetBehaviour I am certain there is a “cultural record”  (to use the
> words of Vannevar Bush) with a narrative flow that captures
> a “story” of the time and place and people involved. I consider social
> media (generally and perhaps idealistically speaking) to be
> expressive, performative (not proconsumative), and participatory in
> equal measure, narrative in a non-hierarchical structure, a theater of
> words and ideas. 
>
>
> that's quite nice :)
>
> On 4/03/15 5:09 16PM, Patrick Lichty wrote:
>>
>> How about “Performience”?
>>
>>  
>>
>> *From:*[email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *helen
>> varley jamieson
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 04, 2015 9:45 AM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [NetBehaviour] my Netartizen contribution
>>
>>  
>>
>> "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
>>
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>>
>>     http://tellthemachines.com
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