“But if Al Jazeera America’s brand was a handicap, its philosophy was a death sentence. The channel was founded on the utterly ill-conceived idea that Americans were starving for sober, ‘unbiased’ hard news coverage. In other words, it made the mistake of offering viewers the programming they claimed to want, instead of the programming that all available evidence suggests they actually enjoy.”
Category: AUDIENCE
How Do You Get Millennials To Come Party At Your Museum *And* Stay True To Your Mission? Here’s How
“In recent weeks, the postings on Craigslist have taken on a desperate tone: ‘Looking for two tickets for … Jan 12th. Willing to negotiate price.’ … These hot tickets were for, of all places, the Franklin Institute – more specifically, Science After Hours, the museum’s monthly, no-kids-allowed science rave.”
Why Broadway Is More And More Using Chicago To Try Things Out
“Over the last several years, Chicago has emerged as the go-to city for Broadway tryouts, consolidating a key position in the commercial theater industry as a stream of new musicals try to find their footing here. The reasons are manifold.”
Britain’s Strapped Regional Museums Are Starting To Charge Admission
“More than one in 10 museums intend to introduce entry charges this year, in moves that underline the vulnerability of cultural organisations to cuts in local authority funding. Since 2010, when the government embarked on widespread cuts as part of its efforts to reduce the deficit, some 44 museums have closed.”
Just How Does This Jazz Festival Regularly Attract 100s Of Thousands Of Screaming Young Fans?
Now in its 12th year, the Jarasum Jazz Festival regularly draws between 200,000 and 250,000 people over three days. Jarasum estimates that 88 percent of its 2015 audience was under age 40. To put this demographic in perspective, the numbers are basically flipped at the Newport Jazz Festival, where a 2012 survey found that 82 percent of its audience is over age 45.
Does Theatre Need To Have Some Clarity, Or Is Hanging Out, Confused But Together, Cool?
“We were ushered into the New Ohio Theatre, where the seats had been replaced by red felt mats, and we lay down for an hour, while the sun (or moon) before us turned from red to orange to silver to white and back again, and the sound track offered the sound of crickets, and waves, and the occasional folk song, and perhaps the distant yelps of a dingo. It was a lovely rest period, more pleasant and certainly longer than any I spent in kindergarten.”
Netflix Used Big Data To Design ‘House Of Cards’ As A Big Hit
But big data only goes so far: “Amazon’s show wasn’t a booming success because they used data all the way. Netflix, however, looked at what users like and used that insight to think up a concept for what they believed would be a hit show, and it clearly worked.”
Remix: NY Public Library Releases 180,000 Images For Public To Remix
“I think of libraries as being full of many pieces of culture that are reassembled to create new forms of culture. I think that’s absolutely a trajectory of the library, we should be a set of resources that people can use for new forms of creation that are contemporary, and ones we haven’t even thought about yet.”
Immersive Interactive Theatre Is Taking Over. What’s A Passive Person To Do?
“So I am not the natural ticket buyer for the immersive and participatory theater that is taking hold in the city as art forms bleed together, companies experiment with different storytelling approaches, and people clamor for more active artistic experiences. Is the passive audience dead (in more ways than one), you begin to wonder?”
Why Do We Watch/Read/Listen To Some Things Over And Over Again?
The most obvious reason is something called the “mere-exposure effect.” Quite simply, people prefer things they’ve previously been exposed to. The effect makes sense from an evolutionary point of view: If we’ve been through a door 100 times and know what’s behind it, we no longer have to worry that a predator is waiting beyond the threshold. But how does this relate to re-consumption of media?