Exam 1: New Media Culture and Criticism
á 3 essay questions
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Questions
will ask you to consider broad themes: study the areas below and think very
hard about how everything relates to each other
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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.
Networked
Public Sphere
The possibilities enabled by the social networked
sphere
The industrial vs. information/networked society
Networked public sphere vis a vis democracy
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
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
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
Commercialization
History
How exactly are search engines like Google
compromised?
Google's Page rank algorithm
Google's competition with Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple
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.
STUDY
PPT.
STUDY
YOUR NOTES
STUDY GOOGLE SITES DISCUSSION BOARD COMMENTS TO REFRESH ON SOME SPECIFIC EXAMPLES/DETAILS OF VARIOUS ARTICLES READ.