Performance today has a much greater meaning than just theatre, television and cinema shows. Performance is in our everyday life. Every person begins a performance as soon as they leave the house (if it has not began already).
Ning is a website that is linked to on the blog, which allows people to join social networks that interest them, similar to Facebook. The issue of Facebook has been discussed in recent seminars, and how people perform on there, by only showing what they want people to see, and deciding what and who to allow onto their site. I don’t think it is only websites such as Facebook and Ning where people perform in this way. People perform like this in everyday real life. Appearance is an aspect of performance. You decide what you want to wear, and a lot of people decide what to wear, based on what they think other people would like to see them in. Although you may wear clothes you like, many people, consciously or subconsciously, also wear clothes to impress other people. When meeting new people, you decide what you want them to know about you, and decide what you want to keep secret from them. People perform on Facebook just as they do in real life.
The weird and wonderful blog list displays a shortlist of what is thought to be the most ‘worthwhile’ blogs voted by Metro. ‘the more compelling, unpredictable and unique, the better’, is that what makes a worthwhile perofrmance?
Whether a performance is worthwhile or not, I believe is down to the individuals of the audience and their personal preferences. There is not going to be a performance that is agreed by each and every member of the audience to be worthwhile. Performances can gain a higher status by appealing to more people, and the majority of the audience finding the performance worthwhile. Don R Hall’s website entitled ‘an Angry White Guy in Chicargo’ posts comments about performances that he does not find worthwhile. Although he finds some things unsuited, he explains that in some of the shows, most people in the audience enjoy the performance, which would make the performance appear worthwhile even though he does not agree.
The ‘High court footage’ on YouTube is an example of people performing. As are the ‘Top Ten Shock Blogs’. Even though these acts are not very pleasant and are seen by most people as unacceptable, the people that carried out these actions and placed the footage onto the Internet obviously wanted to share them with other people. These are not seen as worthwhile performances because the majority of people don’t think they are. However the individuals who did this obviously had a reason for doing it and thought other people would find them worthwhile.
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