Study Guide

Exam 1: New Media Culture and Criticism

á           3 essay questions

á           Questions will ask you to consider broad themes: study the areas below and think very hard about how everything relates to each other

á           Please note: you are expected to write a LOT and provide many details to support your points. The more details and ability to convey your understanding of opposing viewpoints, the better.

 

Topic Areas

 

Web 2.0

Wealth of Networks/ Yochai Benkler

Networked Public Sphere

The possibilities enabled by the social networked sphere

The industrial vs. information/networked society

Networked public sphere vis a vis democracy

Re-mix: Lawrence Lessig

The process of cultural production
User generated content

Copyright and cultural production issues historically: how history repeats itself
Souza
Elite, RO culture vs. democratic, RW culture
Culture as an ecosystem (according to Lessig)
How RO cultures maintain economic value, and how RW cultures promote economic value
The importance of commercial economies
Sharing economies; examples of sharing economies (Wikipedia, Internet Archive, GNU, Gutenberg Project, etc.)
Me-regarding vs. thee-regarding cultures
The significance of sharing economies
Hybrid economies: Craig's List, Flickr
Collaboration spaces vs. Community spaces
The Creative Commons , why copyright laws must be changed, and how

Freedom of Expression/Kembrew Mcleod

Specific examples of copyright laws applied in ÒridiculousÓ ways

What is authorship?  Who is an author?  What are opposing ways of thinking about authorship?

Roland Barthes; Jacque Derridas

what does copyright have to do with democracy?

Mashups

Fair Use/Center for Social Media

Public Domain

Copyright laws and the difficulties they bring to documentary filmmaking
Fair Use: what it is and how it works

The future of visual content: where will we be in 10 years?

Wikipedia as a controversial open source site/Stacy Schiff

Google as an advertising conglomerate

Commercialization /Adwords

History

How exactly are search engines like Google compromised? (Adsense/Contextual Links)

Google's Page rank algorithm

Google Books and Google's efforts to digitize all books

Google's competition with Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple

Reclaiming the American Commons/ David Bollier

What is the tension between libraries and commercial search engines?

                  Commons

                  Carnegie/history of public libraries

                  Digital archiving movement

                  OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting)

                  Oaister and other digital archives

Photojournalism:  how the web has changed how we communicate visually through photos.

 

 

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