While on a recent whirlwind vacation, my husband and I were unexpectedly recruited to participate in a test audience for an upcoming NBC summer series. It was one of the highlights of the trip. It wasn’t the $15 we each earned for an hour of our time and opinions, as much as the process itself.

We were whisked away into a modest room with several computer monitors, already engaged participants wearing oversized earphones, and the all important green and red clickers. A short video instructed us to press the green button when we liked something during the program and the red button for things we didn’t like. The space bar was only to be used if we would have stopped watching the program--in real life. I saw my husband press the bar 5 minutes after the program began.

The format provided ample opportunity for feedback—via the colored buttons, a detailed touch-screen Q&A at the end of the program, and the all important space bar. While the aspiring new program was mildly amusing in a guilty pleasure kind of way, I loved being a participant and feeling like I making some minor contribution to art.

Although it’s certainly not as sterile, structured or lucrative, social media provides countless opportunities to contribute opinions. Whether it’s joining a discussion on Twitter, liking a corporate Facebook page, or contributing comments to blog posts--- sharing ones voice is virtually as easy as clicking a button.

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