Thursday, October 1, 2009

Fan/Community Site

I chose to do deviantart.com. This is an art community where people are free to share their art and view others art and comment. Any member can comment on an artists work but only paying members can critique or ask for critique on their art work. The website offers a variety of copyright options when you submit art. Although even with those I have seen cases of peoples art getting stolen. If someone is found to be doing that they are banned from the site and their account is cancelled. Generally people offer positive critiques or comments on each others art but there are always people that will trash others art just for the fun of it. There are many people that submit fan art from tv shows or other things they like. Since, these types of things are divided up into sections it helps build community around peoples interests on the site since it is host to many different types of art and reasons for the art. People can easily find what they are interested in and get involved with others of similar interest. The forums and chatrooms also help build this community since chatrooms can be specified by interest.

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