Technology
"1. Authorship must be attributed to a work of art. 2. Art is a form of property. 3. Art must be placed in a context that declares it to be art" (Troemel). Yes, social media has changed the rules and challenged the norms relating to how art is identified as "real" art. There is no need for authorship. There could be several reasons why a post, piece, blog, picture etc might not have an author linked to it: the original artist might not have been credited when the art went viral online, the original artist may have not wanted to be publicized for unknown reasons, or different people might have falsely claimed the art to be their own. This is all possible since we are dealing with the internet - once something is posted on Instagram, it can be screen shotted and re-posted elsewhere without your knowledge. With social media platforms that display creative videos, snapshots of poems, memes, self-made internet stars, self-proclaimed "models", or bloggers, the creativity that you can find on the internet is endless - "through social media, art is reintroduced into everyday life, creating a loop between the two contexts" (Troemel). Art can come in many different forms, and does not need to be placed in a museum or art show to be labeled as an artwork anymore. You do not need a huge following to be creative on the internet, let alone an audience at all, you just create and create.
