Sharon TateFair Use 17 USC 1701Excerpt from the Int...

 Sharon Tate
Fair Use 17 USC 1701
Excerpt from the Introduction© 2018 Michael A. WalkerLet me introduce you to a Sharon Tate that people are not much familiar with.
Sharon worked in the acting profession, amassing an enormous amount of imagery from photographs, television, and movies during her life. Taken together as a visual portfolio, Sharon’s media arsenal is a formidable force to be reckoned with should somebody go all-out. Not nearly enough has been accomplished in definitively presenting Sharon’s life despite the resources to do so. In the American psyche, Sharon Tate remains increasingly overshadowed by the evermore lurid portrayals of her murder. For me, this alone is enough to cause some reflection on the entire situation.
The power of media for good or evil is one of the greatest problems of our time. Media in all of its various forms became a cultural battlespace once robust computerization occurred within our society. There was no corresponding set of active control measures applied to the emerging cyberspace domain which assimilated all forms of media content into its bottomless pit. For lack of foresight, cyberspace was a botched transition that among other things did not have security in mind. This particular security deficiency issue would eventually drive up costs and dilute much of the benefit. There are some other ill effects worth noting as well.
Due to the striation of visual media involved in the case, this is how the Sharon Tate problem set presents itself to us today. The question is how to proceed. The first order of business would be to reflect on the problem for a while and conduct serious research with further focus on where question marks pop up as they are encountered. The next step would be to assemble the research into some kind of logical order, capture and organize the various reflections in one place, and see if and how a narrative would emanate from the collection. This would all be done before initiating a more formalized deliberative planning process.