Corpsey
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Speaking from personal experience, there's a pressure that falls on you when you write something for a publication either online or in print, a sense of responsibility for whatever meagre influence you might have on the success or failure of a record, the knowledge that the artist themselves might read what you've written, the platforming of your opinions etc... but also a pressure to write something polished and 'proper'. Something with a structured form, something impressive and clever, and all the rest of it.
On Dissensus there's obviously certain pressures being exerted but on the whole people can be more themselves here, less filtered, less bothered about being witty. So you get opinions, and writing, that you'd never find in a magazine or online publication. Apart from anything else there's no EDITOR. (The extreme version of this would be a 4CHAN style Dissensus, which is what the tag system semi-simulates.) Also, you get PEOPLE you'd not get in a magazine writing on forums or social media. The polished nature of magazines discriminates towards people who can write in a certain way, people who usually would be university graduates, presumably less and less necessarily white middle-class but I would expect still fairly predominantly that.
I find comments under videos on YouTube that resonate more than anything a journo might write, because they'll be coming from a very personal place or they'll be an unapologetic un "reasoned" opinion.
(There's definitely PROs to the platform effect. I have written more considered and 'elegant' sentences in album reviews than I generally do on here.)
On Dissensus there's obviously certain pressures being exerted but on the whole people can be more themselves here, less filtered, less bothered about being witty. So you get opinions, and writing, that you'd never find in a magazine or online publication. Apart from anything else there's no EDITOR. (The extreme version of this would be a 4CHAN style Dissensus, which is what the tag system semi-simulates.) Also, you get PEOPLE you'd not get in a magazine writing on forums or social media. The polished nature of magazines discriminates towards people who can write in a certain way, people who usually would be university graduates, presumably less and less necessarily white middle-class but I would expect still fairly predominantly that.
I find comments under videos on YouTube that resonate more than anything a journo might write, because they'll be coming from a very personal place or they'll be an unapologetic un "reasoned" opinion.
(There's definitely PROs to the platform effect. I have written more considered and 'elegant' sentences in album reviews than I generally do on here.)