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The Bloggers are Revolting | Steeplechasing
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October 13, 2009. The Bloggers are Revolting. Posted in Emerging Media and Communications. At 12:30 am by alinemckenzie. Back in my journalist days, I was forbidden to write anything in second person. Even something as benign as “If you’re the kind of person who X” opens the door to “well, I’m not, so I’ll stop reading now.” The principle was that a reporter never knows what’s in the mind of the reader. British theorist Stuart Hall. In his 1980 work “Encoding/Decoding” (an expansion of work h...8220;[I]t...
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I spent the day fulfilling Manovich’s theory of new media, and boy, are my fingertips tired. | Steeplechasing
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October 5, 2009. I spent the day fulfilling Manovich’s theory of new media, and boy, are my fingertips tired. Posted in Emerging Media and Communications. At 11:19 pm by alinemckenzie. Today at work, I edited video, something I’ve never done before. From the get-go, I was committing remediation. The editing program had four major areas on screen. There was the raw video I’d downloaded, the work in progress composed of snippets of video linked by transitions (both of these areas resembling a film reel...
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Four Degrees From Beethoven | Steeplechasing
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November 16, 2009. Four Degrees From Beethoven. Posted in Emerging Media and Communications. At 9:22 pm by alinemckenzie. One cool thing about network theory that Duncan Watts. Didn’t mention in his book. Is that it works over time as well as space. For instance, I’m four degrees removed from Beethoven. The tale involves AOL, Russia, the movie Moonstruck, an anonymous old woman at a party, and, of course, Beethoven. Actor Feodor Feodorovich Chaliapin. Beethoven was Beethoven. Died in Vienna , 1827. The d...
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Almost Like Real Life | Steeplechasing
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November 10, 2009. Almost Like Real Life. At 2:04 am by alinemckenzie. I enjoyed danah boyd’s. Thesis, Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics. I found it engaging, filled with the voices of actual teens rather than a dry scholarly tone, and sensible. As she put it:. The key teen social practices have not changed as a result of technology, but the site of gathering has. (p. 240). Unfortunately, in the end I regarded her conclusion as rather a duh! For the young people boyd inte...
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Balance Does Not Equal Symmetry | Steeplechasing
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November 24, 2009. Balance Does Not Equal Symmetry. At 1:09 am by alinemckenzie. Better use pencil anyway. I’m going to play a game I call Extreme Oversimplification, because I need to hold my own hand and walk very slowly through this week’s heavy-duty reading, The Exploit. Then, tactics change in come the sneaky fighters who don’t play fair. Maybe they’re Minutemen who take long-distance, hidden shots at British soldiers trained to fight in solid, rigid lines. Or they’re members of Spanish. To have a n...
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Be careful what you wish for. The Internet might give it to you. | Steeplechasing
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December 1, 2009. Be careful what you wish for. The Internet might give it to you. Posted in Emerging Media and Communications. At 12:38 am by alinemckenzie. This semester has taught me some sobering lessons about connectivity in our lives. Or, more precisely, reminded me of the biggest lesson in life: There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. As Jonathan Zittrain puts it, we’re at a point where the Internet seems to offer freedom or safety, but not both, or at least not easily. And all for free! To peo...
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ThoroughlyModernMeka: Meka.0
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Saturday, April 9, 2011. Hmm What about the videos in which the star is clearly unaware that they were being recorded? Or where the video was uploaded without the star's knowledge? Who is the author in that case.the person who filmed the video, the person who uploaded it, or the person in it? Or does it even matter? Furthermore, when said video is then taken out of it's context and lampooned before the world, why in the world would anyone even want to claim authorship? April 9, 2011 at 9:16 PM. April 10,...
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Dog Needs A Home — not at all class-related | Steeplechasing
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October 26, 2009. Dog Needs A Home — not at all class-related. Posted in Personal yet of riveting interest to the world, I'm sure. At 5:05 pm by alinemckenzie. This has nothing to do with our coursework, but if you’ve got a resource, may as well tap it. The rehoming of my foster dog, Doris, has failed. I ask a $50 adoption fee, which will be donated to the animal-care group of your choice, a home visit and references, including a veterinarian. Doris is spayed, microchipped and current on all vaccinat...
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ThoroughlyModernMeka: Confessions of a Copyright Criminal
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Saturday, April 16, 2011. Oh well, I've always been a bit of a rebel. April 17, 2011 at 10:04 AM. April 17, 2011 at 1:12 PM. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? April 17, 2011 at 8:19 PM. April 18, 2011 at 6:28 AM. Im not sure re-posting these YouTube videos is in violation. it seems to me that YouTube videos are meant to be shared as long as youre not claiming to be the creator. Also, youre writing a commentary or critique. right? I think that falls under Fair Use. Oh, its all so confusing!