Artist-Audience Relations in the Age of Social Media

MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA

Nancy Baym asks, "How does direct access to fans change what it means to be an artist? What rewards are there that weren't before?"

Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture

MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Nancy Baym: "By the time musicians and industry figures realized they could use the internet to reach audiences directly, those audiences had already established their presences and social norms online, putting them in unprecedented positions of power."