This is the complete chapter from Lev Manovich's The Language of New Media.
Reflect on the qualities that he identifies as pertaining to 'new
media' as we integrate our encounters with the technologies and changed
social contexts of digital converged media.
Here are a couple of articles that many of you could use to integrate the readings in light of your different projects. Remember that the assigned readings are also integral in helping you develop your project and paper.
Evil Bert is referenced in Jenkins. Find the original Bert Is Evil website here at WayBackMachine. The story of the Bert Is Evil website is told here at Wikipedia. A contemporary site for all kinds of Evil Bert stuff is here.
"Musical styles change over time and so do their techniques of appropriation. Sometimes musical generations find their successors are engaging in different types of borrowing than they themselves engaged in. They do not always find it congenial. It is striking how often musicians condemn a younger generation’s practice of musical appropriation as theft, while viewing their own musical development and indebtedness as benign and organic. … [Sampling] is a different kind of borrowing than the adaptation of a chord pattern from a gospel standard to make an R&B hit. But which way does the difference cut as a matter of ethics, aesthetics, or law?"
This is good material for those of you interested in copyright and appropriation especially if you are thinking of working on these issues for your final papers. Chapter 6 ("I Got A Mashup") is especially pertinent. Chapter 6 is here, from the 'annotatable' version on the website of Boyle's book.
Aoki, Boyle and Jenkins, Bound By Law? This is the comic book on copyright. Don't be fooled by its form: this is required reading. You can also find it free on-line from its publisher --crazy, huh?-- Duke University and The Center for the Study of the Public Domain in a variety of formats. You can also 'remix' it and you're encouraged to translate it. It's all here.
From Technology Review (free registration might be required) read the debate around the question:
While you're at it, look at your 'friends' on Facebook and ask yourselves: Who Owns Your Friends...
Here's the complete version of the Larry Lessig talk I mentioned in class.
You can download it here.This was Lessig's 'last' talk on Free Culture and it has that sort of summing up about it.
You can find his original presentation in a number of different formats (powerpoint, mp3, flash presentation, transcript, pdf, etc.) here.
At the time of the SOPA/PIPA debacle I posted this entry with many links to the discussions fermenting around the issues. Right around the same time the Megaupload takedown happened. Find the post here will all the relative links. The Clay Shirky TED talk which gives the post its title should give you plenty of food for thought.
Finally, for those of you who still don't have it you can download Girl Talk's breakthrough Feed The Animals from the Illegal Art website as a free download. Enjoy the 'official' 372 overlapping samples. You can find detailed info on all of them here. You don't have to look very heard to find his more recent CDs.
Bob Christgau, the "Dean of American Rock Critics", provides an inter-generational appreciation of Girl Talk on NPR here.
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