Study Guide

Midterm: Technology and Human Communication

 

á           1-3 essay questions

á           Question(s) 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 provide many details to support your points. The more details and ability to convey your understanding of opposing viewpoints, and the complicated world we live in with regards to the Internet, the better.

 

 

TOPIC AREAS

 

Networked Public Sphere and Web culture
   Steven Johnson, where good ideas come from        

   Digital natives vs. digital immigrants  (Prensky)
  Clive Thompson:How Successful Networks Nurture Good Ideas: Wired/Crazy Good! October 2013 issue
  Chris Anderson, TED TALK (below). How the Web Powers Global Innovation
  The possibilities enabled by the social networked sphere and the Utopian/Dystopian Internet
             Jurgen Habermas
            Yochai Benkler/The Wealth of Networks
              The industrial vs. information/networked society

Networked public sphere vis a vis democracy
The digital turn
Web 2.0
Cass Sunstein and the filtering of web content/The Daily We
Andrew Keen and the decline of elite culture (see pdf)
Mark Goodman: A Vision of Crimes in the Future (TED TALK: 19:25)
Rebecca MacKinnon: Let's Take Back the Internet (TED Talk--14:52)

Freedom of Expression/LESSIG + MCLEOD

RIP: A Remix Manifesto
Lawrence Lessig: Laws that Choke Creativity (TED TALK, 18:59)

           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 Derrida and their contributions to literary theory and what it means to be an author?

           Copyright: what does copyright have to do with democracy?

           Mashups
Steven Colbert and Lawrence Lessig
Kembrew  Mcleod, Freedom of Expression, pp. 1-113
Copyright and Music Sampling


Fair Use

           Public Domain
           Fair use (see A Fairy Use) THIS LINK IS NOW WORKING CORRECTLY!!

           Copyright laws and the difficulties they bring to documentary filmmaking, music making, and all forms of creative production

           Creative Commons and why it is important in the "age of copyright"

           Transforming content as a way of practicing "Fair Use"

 

Wikipedia and Freedom of Inforamtion
           Schiff, Stacy, Know it All: Can Wikipedia conquer expertise? New Yorker, 7/31/200
Aaron Swartz's Legacy
David Bollier: The Commons, Short and Sweet
War of the Web Kickstarter trailer (film will be released in 2014)

                  Commons

                  Carnegie/history of public libraries

                  Getty Images and other for-profit photo archives.
Libaries and the Digital archiving movement

                  Librarians and copyright, and terms of use.
                  Public domain and the Creative Commons
The FORTEPAN Project as the ultimate Creative Commons
YouTube Copyright Notices

Lawrence Lessig remembers Aaron Schwartz

 

HOW TO STUDY:
Review all readings and video segments.
Review Class Slideshows
Review your 3/4 page papers
Study your notes

Think about how all these topics relate to one another.
Think ACROSS topics. (Questions will all be asking you to synthesize across topics)
Remember specific examples and specific details from class, the readings, the videos, and the slideshows.