Media pioneers love the medium while later waves arrive purely to chase profit

Evidence

It’s always that way, with new technology … the [people] who first get into, say, radio, love the medium for what it is. the second wave of [people] come because they sense a gold rush. it is the way of things. nobody will love the medium as much as the [people] who first found it, and invented it. you can sit around lamenting its demise, and drink cocktails and get misty-eyed about the golden age, but it’s not coming back. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 166

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks to the authenticity-versus-commercialization tension at the heart of self-branding discourse — the same cycle recurring across every new platform. — connects to: First adopters love a medium purely while second-wave arrivals follow profit — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 166; Contemporary media are far more derivative and finance-driven than past media — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media: How Wall Street…, 16
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 166

Broader Connections

• First adopters love a medium purely while second-wave arrivals follow profit #corroborates (0.96) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 166
• Contemporary media are far more derivative and finance-driven than past media #expands (0.82) — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 16