I’ve been doing a lot of thinking.
More on that later, when it is more digested, synthesized and polished.
For right now, I’d like to point out a spoken word piece that I would use an epigraph to any conversation of new media.
I’ll provide text from the poem here.
Gil Scott Heron, an American poet and spoken word artist, wasn’t talking about new media obviously – but he was talking about the transparency of media. What the revolution is – we can’t exactly say. Is it civil rights? Is it the unspoken change?
And though I love the song, I would use it for completely satirical purposes. When reading it, you realize – the revolution will be televised and it will be live streamed and it will be recorded, documented and published in thirty seconds through twitter, facebook, wordpress, myspace, your mouth.
“The revolution will not be televised, it will be live.”
A beautiful and true ending.
Just something to think about.
