Writing For Emergent Media Chapter 6

In Chapter 6 of Goldsmith’s thesis, he goes on to explain how origin is essential for photography and more broader, technology as a whole. Essentially, the value in which content transgresses loses value. The factor of originality is important when trying to create something for the simple fact that there will always be multiples of styles that look similar to each other. To branch off of that idea, there are various examples where content and work have taken the form of something else and loses its credit based on an underlying genre. A perfect example of this process can be related to art and towards a broader spectrum technology as a whole. Art has various genres and can take the face of many mediums so it would only be right for certain pieces to look similar. Now if you take that image and manipulated and used little to no originality, then it practically drowned in the content wave. The essential need for what’s in the now is originality. Another prime example is music. I feel that artists who take samples from other people’s work, do well based on how much originality they contributed into their work. The main point I’m trying to go back to is that through technology now, everything has a point of origin and will do well depending on how original that content is.