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There are plenty of artful examples of rock music, definitely, but its power-stancing DNA will always be grown adults in silly outfits screaming about their broken hearts.
The Retro Music Genre That Will Change Your Life
nytimes.com
Scholars of China’s contemporary media have shown that audiences do not take the truth-claims they are presented with at face value, but __filter them through various lenses of skepticism, cynicism, and irony__ (C. Wang and Huang 2021; Latham 2016). People in the news industry are __aware of this but not necessarily impeded by it__, for the value that a news article has for them is not necessarily pegged to its public impact.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
But, with the rise of platforms like Musical.ly and TikTok, the century-old consumption-based model of royalty payments has been replaced by a collaborative model, in which rights holders and online creators are partners in the chancy enterprise of virality. As a social-media native, Pace knew what the music industry would soon grasp collectively: that the balance of power had shifted from the song and its owners to the netizens who could make the song go viral. A new economy of TikTok creator-influencers was emerging, who were selling lightning in a bottle,
So You Want to Be a TikTok Star | The New Yorker
John Seabrook
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