Roger Sabin, "International Influences" from Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels (nb. This is a large file because of the hi-res scan and many images it contains)
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.
Disney buys Lucasfilm and announces new Star Wars film for 2015.
(For the Comics students here's Dark Horse's reaction to the acquisition). For everyone else, remember this is not just news. Think of the implications this has for what we have been discussing during the course of the semester.
"To say that Nancy is a simple gag strip about a simple-minded snot-nosed kid is to miss the point completely. Nancy only appears to be simple at a casual glance. Like architect Mies Van Der Rohe, the simplicity is a carefully designed function of a complex amalgam of formal rules laid out by the designer. To look at Bushmiller as an architect is entirely appropriate, for Nancy is, in a sense, a blue print for a comic strip. Walls, floors, rocks, trees, ice-cream cones, motion lines, midgets and principals are carefully positioned with no need for further embellishment. And they are laid out with one purpose in mind - to get the gag across. Minimalist? Formalist? Structuralist? Cartoonist!"
This is the bulk of readings for the 'discourses of race' section of the course as we wade through it this week and next. Please have these articles read in the order posted. Pay particular attention to Zook's article on the Fox Network as it invests that political economic perspective that is so well dramatized in Bamboozled as well as the Means-Coleman article on 'black sitcoms' which is a good example of textual analysis.
Superman quits Daily Planet day job to go online: mourns "how journalism has given way to entertainment" making it impossible for him to fight for "truth, justice and the American way".
Articles related to our upcoming discussion on signs, meaning and culture and their intersections with the construction of identity, desire and power. Sut Jhally, "Image Based Culture" Scott McCloud, Semiotics (from Understanding Comics) Keith Negus, "Popular Music: Between Celebration and Despair" (from Questioning The Media)
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