The discipline of Communication, because of the advancements in technology, encompasses all facets of creation. There can be no link missed. Every interest, every part of a person’s life living in this country, or any digitized nation, can be in some way related to this mechanism of exchanged information. An interest in writing on the areas of film and music obviously only touch a portion of this seemingly ever growing mass of media. And while film and music have been inextricably linked since silent films were originally accompanied by bands and orchestras during public displays, this relationship sprung ahead as Jean Renoir sought to push his medium forward much in the same way Lou Reed and Andy Warhol married disparate elements of art culture. At the same time that motion forward in any art form begins, there are those that have in some way become commentators, whether they’re Dorothy Parker or Camille Paglia. Conscious criticism has been levied upon the great, good and bad. In all too many ways the creator and the commentator occupy a similar space in the culture. Obviously they are linked by being indebted to each other, needing one another to ply a craft: a circular and sometimes venomous relationship. In recent times both pursuits have become more and similar.

Commentators becoming celebrities for perceiving art in a singular manner. But similarly each new movement or idea has to be discovered and eventually spread across the globe. These commentators need the same avenues for their own expression. Obviously the digitized American has provided both creator and commentator with miraculous choices by which to leave personal markers on and in the dominant culture. Today, design firms may consist solely of a website and a second bedroom to operate out of while maintaining a solvent business. Musicians no longer require the support of a larger entity to disseminate their work. A computer and internet access does the job of label, manager and publicity at a fraction of the cost.

In this, greater industry and business is affected. The business sector, not necessarily known for disturbing the status quo must now move in directions that moguls find spurious. But that only points to the further digitizing of our age. Working in Communications is not only the study of information being sent from one point to another, but how the culture has changed. Seemingly constant and relatively painless, this shift has actually disrupted every industry that bolstered this nations economy prior to the ‘90s. Indisputable is the fact that tomorrow will always be different than today. A great deal of that has to do with the fact that individuals have realized that doing it yourself, while still rattled with pratfalls, in many cases usurps paying others to do it for you at a cost personally, financially and artistically.