Social Media is the New Punk by Lachlan Williams suggests that social media such as You Tube, MySpace and Facebook has a punk aesthetic in that it allows people to create whatever their level of skill – the quality of the outcome is less important than the enthusiasm of the participation. It also says that, like punk, the corporations will (are) inevitably watering down the rawness in their attempt to associate with and cash in on something that is deemed cool by the young folk.
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