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Have we become a world obsessed by sharing, one which is driven by documenting everything and seeing the world through a tiny screen instead of with our own eyes?
We have become so used to watching that we quite often forget what it is to physically participate. Is it a bad thing? Many people have built careers out of it, but if everyone is busy recording the same thing then who is watching?
On the contrary theorist Van Dijk suggests that even with the availability of sights such as YouTube and Soundcloud 1 in 10 of us is actually producing content. Therefore it begs the question, what is happening to all of that footage, all of those photos. Are they lost within the plethora of daily clutter or are they being saved for the right moment?
Speaking as a producer of my own content, I think I fit into both of these categories. I'm forever filming short clips, bits and bobs because I know I will use it later on but sometimes I think we record things purely because we can. If everyone else is doing it, you don't want to be the odd one out. Right?
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