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Friday, May 02, 2014
Arts Audiences are Increasingly Restless and Fickle, Study Finds
WQXR: The Culture Track 2014 study of audience behavior, which surveyed 4,026 American adults, paints a picture of dabbling arts consumers, cynical but curious. And "culture" doesn’t necessarily mean a night at the opera or museum: 80 percent of respondents define a visit to a public park as a cultural experience; 64 percent find culture in going to a bar or a restaurant.
This article highlights the disturbing phenomenon of people's desire to attend events just in order to show off their experience on the interwebs via social media. It seems like a harmless issue, but I have a suspicion that it is much harder to fully take in an event if you are too busy filming it for your friends back home. I hope for a growing awareness to this problem that makes people rethink pulling out their phones whenever they fee; uncomfortable or need to prove themselves online, I'm sure people will eventually realize what they are robbing themselves of.
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