POEM BY NARI TRIUMPH OF CONTENT

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POEM BY NARI
visual poetry from the cyberstream

---- > Announcing... > > TRIUMPH OF CONTENT -- NEW INTERNET MAIL L triumph of content--a triumph of text and graphics, speech and music, > art and photography, video and games, but all of these as if now but a > That this profound change reflects a vast array of other societal > chan tes > and influences not only national but increasingly global. While B eanie > Babies are popular in Japan as well as in America, for example, "Beauty and the Beast" are > appreciated by children throughou t the world, Japanese animation like > Hayao Miyazaki's "Kiki's Del able to walk. > > Soon everyone now suddenly in the content business- ..... editors ................ poets > advertising executives . fashion -from the creative > arts to marketing, academia to mass media, print to >----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ > > The designers ...... producers > agents ................. filmmakers ....... ...... publicists > animators .............. graphic designers ...... pu broadcasters ........... journalists ............ theme park designers > cartoonists ............ marketers .............. toy designers > compos ers .............. market researchers ..... tv & cable executives > copywriters ............ musicians .............. video game designers > ists ............. photographers .......... writers > > who choose to f Southern California > Los Angeles, California > >--------------- Because of the potential of the Internet and Web to absorb virtually all e expression--is reflected in even the recent and entirely new > uses of Web--will be > struggling to understand these various and profound chang > represented on the Web. Mass-marketed content today also reflects tas torm. While > Disney blockbusters like "The Lion King" and c and Cultural Sector of Global Society > > To join, contact: beniger > forms of creative content through digitization, it is impossible to > dominance of the music industry by the major record labels. > > industry, and content hole (the last-mentioned recently found in a major > Website). Napster and other new online technologies for distributing > music via the Web, as just one example, have already threatened the blishers > architects ............. illustrators ........... social scie > consider content's triumph apart from the culture of globalization as single generalized entity called "content"--constitutes a revolut the word "content" itself, as in: content provider, content > ivery Service" and "Princess Mononoke" are > admired in A merican college anime circles no less than by American > toddlers barely es wrought by > the sudden and simultaneous triumph and globalization of @rcf.usc.edu > > Annenberg School for Communication > University o rtant > commercial sector) of global society, especially as global socie ges--not the least being the increasing commodification of all > creativ content. > > And so we invite you to join us, at > > Triumph-of ionary > and profound change in the world's economy. This change has al so produced > a new economic and cultural sector (if not the *most* impo ty is > increasingly found on the Internet and World Wide Web. > > make an early start on attempting to understand the triumph > of content ntists > artists ................ industrial designers ... students > -Content-L@usc.edu > > along with other > > academics ......... critics ................ performing artists ..... Web designers > dramat --as both a new economic and cultural sector, and also as a > central fo IST > > Triumph-of-Content-L@usc.edu > > Content as New Economi Pokemon, > a Japanese creation, continues to take American children by s rce toward an increasingly global society.