SOMEONE CALL KARL MARX: the means of production is in the hands of the masses and a revolution is under way.

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  • Source:
    Maclean's, 12/19/2005, Vol. 118 Issue 51, p56, 5p, 15 Color Photographs, 1 Black and White Photograph
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      DIGITAL video; MOBILE communication systems; CAMERAS; DIGITAL media; HOME movies; INTERNET; STREAMING technology (Telecommunications); WEBCASTING
    • Subject Terms:
      Internet & Social Media
    • Author(s):
      Johnson, Brian D.
    • Abstract:
      This article discusses the increasing popularity of people making their own music, movies, and more using home computers, iPods, cellphones, and digital cameras. Digital technology has given rise to the phenomenon of amateurs manipulating media for their own individual preferences. "The Blair Witch Project" is an example of an amateur movie that cost $60,000 to make and earned $248 million. Now you can shoot a home movie in high definition on a small camcorder, cut it with the same software used by Oscar-winning editors, get your son's garage band to lay down a soundtrack, burn the video onto a DVD, post it on a website, senores have more than doubled since 2001, largely because of new digital imaging and audio prod it to friends by cellphone, and promote it in a podcast that you record while driving to work.