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As the digital doyennes and e-royalty gather at SXSWi in Austin, Texas, Digital Planet asks if there's a risk that an open culture might be a culture that is slowly dying.
Is the digital space killing creativity? With so much amateur content online, there is a strong desire to consume it all for free. Culture is rotting away before our very browsers. Or is it? Isn't this a great time to be alive – all this collaboration, untapped talent that now has an outlet thanks to the web. That is up for discussion in a special edition of Digital Planet from the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.
Gareth Mitchell travels around the festival and witness Tesla coils sparking off a bit of hacker culture; a comic book that embraces Creative Commons; how the Star Wars movie is crowd-sourced. Mitchell also talks to the internet contrarian Andrew Keen who is sceptical about the rampant growth of 'openness'.
In front of a live audience, Mitchell is joined by a panel of experts - June Cohen, Executive Producer of TED Media; broadcaster and blogger Jamillah Knowles, and Steve Rosenbaum, author, filmmaker and founder of the video curation platform Magnify.net - to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of 'openness' on the internet.
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Is openness in the digital space killing creativity? Digital Planet at SXSWi 2011
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