The Internet has put new venues and distribution channels beyond the control of classical communication systems—the entertainment industry, the art world. Of course the Internet is a system too but it’s sufficiently inchoate that, for the moment at least, within its context such designations as “artist” and “entertainer,” “good” and “bad” turn fuzzy; once again technological innovation has unsettled categories.
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