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Twenty years ago, popular media was a monoculture. If you wanted to know what everyone was talking about, you looked at the Nielsen ratings for Sunday night or checked the Billboard Hot 100. A single episode of Friends or American Idol could unite 30 million people in a shared, simultaneous experience.

One of the most profound shifts in the last decade is the erosion of the line between creator and audience. We have entered the era of .