"I use the term 'fake' here in the context of a product made entirely out of information, and your cinema example is a good one."
I understand the points being made here but using something like cinema isn't the best thing when you think about it.
The reason is cinema has been around a long time. It's something that started at a different time and also you are doing it the presence of other people and it's a cultural thing.
Things that are legacy are different in people's minds. So using it to either make or break an argument as to human behavior can be problematic.
You could use, as an example, people's behavior with attending sporting events pointing to why people spend money to see a team win. And then why they will or will not do "x" activity. But as we all know the chance of starting a new sports league and getting the same type of attendance and devotion simply hasn't and most likely won't happen. (Professional soccer in the US is an example. It's big in the rest of the world but it doesn't make the nightly news in the US and there is very little attention payed to it relative to Football, Baseball, Ice Hockey, Basketball. And even Ice Hockey is much bigger in Canada.)
So you could say "this would work because look what people do with respect to Football" or "this wouldn't work because look what people do with Football" and you are comparing something that has a huge advantage because it's so entrenched in the way we all think at this point. (And High School Football in small towns vs. big cities even bigger difference.)
I understand the points being made here but using something like cinema isn't the best thing when you think about it.
The reason is cinema has been around a long time. It's something that started at a different time and also you are doing it the presence of other people and it's a cultural thing.
Things that are legacy are different in people's minds. So using it to either make or break an argument as to human behavior can be problematic.
You could use, as an example, people's behavior with attending sporting events pointing to why people spend money to see a team win. And then why they will or will not do "x" activity. But as we all know the chance of starting a new sports league and getting the same type of attendance and devotion simply hasn't and most likely won't happen. (Professional soccer in the US is an example. It's big in the rest of the world but it doesn't make the nightly news in the US and there is very little attention payed to it relative to Football, Baseball, Ice Hockey, Basketball. And even Ice Hockey is much bigger in Canada.)
So you could say "this would work because look what people do with respect to Football" or "this wouldn't work because look what people do with Football" and you are comparing something that has a huge advantage because it's so entrenched in the way we all think at this point. (And High School Football in small towns vs. big cities even bigger difference.)