Celeb culture in the 3I

[Garyius2003]

21st century America seems to love keeping track of the lives of the famous, 70 percent singers/actors, and the rest uber rich or trendy pols. We have magazines, blogs, shows, and even a whole network for keeping track of what they wear and who they are sleeping with, and their various drunk driving and drug arrests.

Does the 3I do this? If so, is it singers and actresses sleeping their way to fame, or is it clothes, dinner parties, and lovers of the noble class? 3I wide updates being shipped at the speed of jump?

Does a wife come home from work on Regina, get the kids fed and homework done and them into bed, and relax with a half-hour of the latest rumors of social status changes on Capital among the Countess and above class?

 

[aramis]

21st century America seems to love keeping track of the lives of the famous, 70 percent singers/actors, and the rest uber rich or trendy pols. We have magazines, blogs, shows, and even a whole network for keeping track of what they wear and who they are sleeping with, and their various drunk driving and drug arrests.

Does the 3I do this? If so, is it singers and actresses sleeping their way to fame, or is it clothes, dinner parties, and lovers of the noble class? 3I wide updates being shipped at the speed of jump?

It cannot do so the way we do now... com lags make it far removed. Still, I'd expect this on a subsector-wide basis. The Third Imperium is just too dwrn big and comm too slow.

 

[DeltaX15]

It cannot do so the way we do now... com lags make it far removed. Still, I'd expect this on a subsector-wide basis. The Third Imperium is just too dwrn big and comm too slow.

I think I'll have to disagree with this.
The people who would be interested in this type of celeb gossip, probably wouldn't care about the time lag (even if they understood that there was one), only that it was the latest news.

Just thought of something else. Someone famous (with a current fasionable wardrobe) travelling direct from Capital to Regina would arrive shortly (for some values of shortly) after reports of the current fasion arrived.

However, the value of any gossip mag type information would be limited to an area where the person is known.
If a holo-vid star is only known in a couple of neighbouring systems, then the news of their latest lover won't get published outside of them, but everyone will want to know what colour hat the Emperor's wife wore at the last garden party.

 

[DangerousThing]

In early US times, there were rabid fans of Charles Dickens, whose works were serialized in British publications.

I've heard that people would mob the sailors trying to buy their personal copies...

And the delay in the 3I would be mostly constant, so any sort of serialized fiction could be shipped on the X-Boats.

Gossip might be the same way: people might accept the several month delay to hear about the "Days of our Emperor". Truth, fiction - at that delay and to the common man, does it matter?