This Week: A look at online troll culture - were these awful people always among us?... Here's who goes to choral concerts... A look inside the brain as it watches movies... Lin Manuel Miranda's crusade against ticket bots. Online Trolls - Are They Getting Worse Or Does The Internet Just Make Them Visible? Time magazine devotes a cover to examining the culture of internet … [Read more...]

This Week: Cyber-fan bullying makes us scared about who the audience really might be... It's not enough to "reflect" diversity of a community to be diverse... If you want to build an audience try investing in your community... Pay-as-you-wish ticket schemes seem straightforward but they're not... Are the arts failing at delivering the audience experience? The Downside Of … [Read more...]

This Week: Why should anyone care what we wear to the theatre?... Big Data is helping indie bookstores thrive... Are our concert halls too big for the experiences we want?... Some thinking on how to connect artists to the larger world... The politics of demographics and aging. Does It Really Matter What You Wear To The Theatre? A full-throated complaint about attire by … [Read more...]

This Week: Are artists now a weapon for developers?... When fans as creators believe they own the artists' work... It's getting tougher to figure out which music is popular... Bots increasingly compete with audiences for tickets... Audio books have become a big market for publishers. Are Artists A Conspiracy Against Poor Neighborhoods? When artists move into … [Read more...]

This Week: Is it possible that the virtual museum experience could beat the in-person visit?... After ten years, mixed verdict on whether HD streaming builds arts audiences... We need a new definition of selling music to reflect new audience realities... Will Pokemon Go change the ways we use public spaces?... We may have just seen Facebook streaming video's breakthrough … [Read more...]