Consider the difference between Holmes and an ordinary individual appearing on the television program Cops. Holmes receives documentaries, dramatizations, biographies, and extended investigations into her character. The person on Cops may receive only a few minutes of footage documenting an encounter with law enforcement. One becomes the subject of a biography; the other becomes the subject of an incident report.

Andrew Levy writes on the intersections of class and the ecology of commerce, and experimental music and the digitalization of freedom.