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I can see why a “remix ethics” might be bad. In certain fields, people really don’t want to share their work and want all the credit for it. And it’s not like I don’t think they have a right to feel that way because I’m sure we have all felt that way about something we have created, but perhaps that mindset in general is just wrong. Creativity and collaboration produce so much more than knowledge hoarding. This is a very simple example, but think about food. Chefs used to be secretive about recipes, but now the trend in the industry is to share—share everything. Share the ingredients, share the techniques, share the process. Share, because what you come up with might be awesome, but it might inspire someone else to think of something you hadn’t thought of and THAT could be amazing. The gratification is that your work inspires other artists like yourself.
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I intern at a company called Geostellar they have videos called “Solar Stories” that each address some aspect of getting solar energy. I choose to share the following link with you all because I like the animation and energy in this particular solar story. The color scheme reflects the energy and the pack a ton of information into a short amount of time.
***I’ve edited this post 3 times now and it’s not displaying my link correctly, so here is the url: http://geostellar.com/solar-stories/curious
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In Blown to Bits, Chapter 8: Bits in the Air, there was a section titled “The Most Beautiful Inventor in the World” that I thought was really interesting. The book alludes to a lot of historical events, but I thought this one was particularly historic and I thought it was weird that I hadn’t heard anything about it before the reading. I had never even heard of Hedy Lamarr before, but now I feel compelled to Google her and figure out if I’ve seen any of her old movies before. An actress making the spread spectrum discovery seems kind of surreal and kind of Hollywood in itself. Aside from the interesting historical tidbit, what I find the most intriguing is that the Navy bought the patent but never built it. I know that sometimes this is done in business to keep competitors from gaining specific technologies, but I wonder what kind of historical impact it would have had if it had been built back then. I also like Lamarr’s quote at the end of the section “Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.” I agree and disagree with this, since technology becomes outdated so quickly. However, if you look at it as technology being something that we constantly build upon, that’s kind of different.
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Fitness Advertisement Genre Conventions
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1. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z3qgL5HYktU/Tpm5SCAWLDI/AAAAAAAAEH8/QOkVWiSsFSY/s1600/Fitness+Ads+%252814%2529.jpg
2. http://files2.coloribus.com/files/adsarchive/part_1608/16088705/file/fitness-centre-kid-600-39825.jpg
3. https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/13482147/disp/034af1682e51edd64fe5221e4a591023.jpg
4. http://www.mensfitness.com/sites/mensfitness.com/files/d6/images-mf-209625-13653.jpgColors: The ads don’t use the same color schemes, but most use bold colors/patters to make strong impressions.
Use of Words: Text is used to support the message the image is saying, whether by explanation or with humor. In all, text is minimal.
Author: The respective companies behind the advertisements.
Use of Images: The images convey the main point the ad is trying to make e.x. you can balance fitness with your life, you’ve let yourself go, you are capable of being better, etc .
These ads seem to target people who might not think fitness is possible for them. By either showing them it is possible, or where they can go to get help with fitness, or telling them they need to be fit, the ads are trying to connect with that audience. They are all extremely to the point and even other examples that I found but didn’t include hold true with the same conventions- bold image with a bold statement.
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In the 7 years since Blown to Bits has been published, it would be my instinct to say that copyright issues would become more complex because the technology gets better (perhaps “more advanced” is a better word for “better”) with each passing year. I haven’t downloaded music since I was a kid (a little because of the laws, but if I’m going to be honest it’s mostly due to my desire to avoid viruses), so I don’t even know what programs are out there now. I did a little Googling and read that in 2010 there were additions to the laws to cover new technologies like e-books and tablets, and also in reaction to smart phones getting smarter. So to me, it all seems more complicated.
I understand that digital rights management was enacted to protect copyrighted material, but the consequences for breaking a lot of these laws seem really extreme, which I think is emphasized in the reading. In the story about Andersen at the beginning of the chapter—what if her daughter had actually downloaded all of that music? Kids download things all the time, and I can’t speak for all kids, but I know that when I was doing that stuff, I had ZERO clue that it was THAT bad and had THOSE consequences. What I think is really interesting is that some artists take matters into their own hands. One of my new favorite artists, Jon Bellion, puts his albums on his website for free. From what I understand, artists make more money off of shows than selling cds- the companies they sign with are the ones that are making all the money off of cds. Artists like that are the ones that are true artists- they create and share because art is meant to be created and shared—not to nickel and dime every person who enjoys it.
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I trust Rheingold as an author for two reasons. Within the context of this class, I trust the book as a credible source before I even start reading because I trust that my professor wouldn’t give the class a crap book to educate ourselves with. Now that I think about it, that might be naïve of me but, in theory, that’s something that I should be able to assume. If I was reading this book outside of the class, I would feel I could trust the author because he references sources a lot and, as he says, he does this so that the readers can check to make sure he’s credible.
As for my “experience and engagement” with reading books in general, I know that I am most engaged when the content I am reading is clear, concise, and organized. Even when reading novels, if the story is all over the place and hard to follow, I get tired reading it. So, it is even more true when I am reading for academic purposes. I’ve recently been doing a lot of research online for my internship. I’m working for a solar company doing marketing communications. Some of my responsibilities include doing informational emails and blog posts on the benefits of solar energy and things like financing options, government incentives, etc. These are things I know nothing about, haha. So I’ve had to research and I find that I look for sites that are .gov or .edu or that have sources I can view. I also use scholarly search engines like our library. -
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@Tiffany I’ve never spent much time thinking about how teachers get their materials for their classes but now that I think about it, even back to middle school, back in school we had a ton of work sheets and photocopied material. It makes sense now that there are rules for usage, but it just seems weird. Unlike college, where we have to buy all of our books and work books, you don’t have to do that in grade school. So why is it that our professors can only allowed to photocopy one chapter of a book for us, but grade school teachers “can” make copies of books every year for their kids?
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@mike @john Personally, I don’t think social media stopping real social interactions from happening is an issue as much as it’s changed how we interact. Because we are now removed from having to physically interact with others, people are…meaner. Social media allows us to hide behind computers and develop this whole other personality–one that doesn’t have any sense of accountability for some individuals. That’s the part that scares me with kids–the process of desensitizing.
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In reference to NET pgs. 213-214, I feel the following from Rainie, Wellman, and Rheingold apply to me: 1) “Those who can act as autonomous agents to cultivate their personal networks and their ‘personal brands.” – I feel like I have the potential to thrive in this manner because I work this way on a small scale. In an effort to draw attention to my restaurant, I post pictures via Instagram, hashtag the hell out of them, and then share them on Twitter and Facebook. I personally get followers because of this, as does the restaurant. I in turn follow those who have interests like mine or at least posts I find interesting and think other people might find interesting. 2)”Those with bigger and more diverse networks.”—I wouldn’t call my network “big” necessarily, but I would call it diverse. I think it’s important to expose yourself to more than just your immediate social circle because, let’s face it, I love my friends—but some of the stuff they clog my news feed with makes me want to pull my hair out and causes my brain cells to die. 3)”Those who learn how to manage their boundaries.”—I think I mentioned this before in another discussion, but the person I have become online is the not the online person I used to be. I used to post EVERYTHING. Every thought, most of them inappropriate, was shared for all the world to see. Now, I have a much better understanding of what should be shared and a more effective filter. Information sharing is definitely a learning process that is never ending, but I think I’m moving in the right direction.
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@MikeSopranik I didn’t realize you’re a PI. I’m sure technology and the fact that social media has made us all obsessed with documenting our every action and thought has made your job a bit easier, haha! Last semester I had to Google myself for a class assignment and you’re right, it’s amazing the amount of information I found. Luckily, there wasn’t anything very incriminating (something I was mildly worried about with graduation on the horizon and job searches starting) but I did see things I had never seen before. Perhaps these days, it takes more work to be invisible than to be visible.
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In Net Smart, chapter 4, Rheingold opens with a discussion of the intelligence of primates. When considering humans being the most advanced primates, I always contributed this to us being the most intelligent. But Rheingold talks about how we are the most advanced not only because we are the most intelligent, but because we developed ways of sharing intelligence with each other. I thought that was a really interesting perspective to have. Having the capability of being intelligent doesn’t make you advanced—if I never attended school or my parents never taught me anything, I wouldn’t be any better off than a chimp or any other primate. I would only have the capability of being better. Relating this to the invention of the internet kind of blew my mind too, because when you think about the sheer amount of the information that makes up and is the World Wide Web, it kind of gives you the same feeling you get when you try to imagine the vastness that is space or comprehend the size of the universe. It’s insane. And someone (Tim Berners-Lee) just thought that up. AND it wasn’t even that long ago! Crazy! However, at the same time, while exchanging information makes us more intelligent, the exchange of information that is not quality facilitates our demise. We’ve made it a double-edged sword.
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I agree with you @chasityrobinson- out of everything to censor, censoring that seems kind of ridiculous. I feel like so many things slip through that should be censored in the entertainment industry that they shouldn’t be focused on things that are 1) not even meant to be heard, as you said, and 2) actually deal with real life. Hearing a candid conversation between world leaders where one swears would actually make me feel a little better about them. Swearing implies heightened emotional involvement, something politicians don’t always seem capable of.
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I feel weird for not thinking of Netflix or similar services automatically. I guess I immediately look over services that you pay for that don’t have access to everything, i.e. not every movie is on Netflix, nor every show on Hulu, etc. Sharing log in information is interesting though- I wonder if because you don’t “OWN” anything that they don’t have rules about how many devices you can use to log in. I have a Kindle, but I’ve never shared a book with anyone before so I’m not exactly sure how it works. I was under the impression that when you shared, only the other person had access to the book. So it was literally like letting someone borrow the book.
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@pboyle623 I loved that you thought to include that commercial as well! It really is perfect for the chapter content. In line with what you said about the choice in chapter titles and with what some of our classmates have said about his writing style, I can see what you are saying about him seeming “unprofessional,” but it actually makes him more credible to me. I feel like his use of modern and relaxed language when talking about modern issues makes me want to listen to what he is saying more. I’m a huge fan of reading people who write in their own voices. I feel like I can really hear him and I think to myself, “Oh, well he really knows what he’s talking about because he has all these personal experiences.”
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@johnmjones My dad didn’t name anything specific. But I’m going to assume that people who talk about hating the president, military, etc. or people who make comments of any kind that are unpatriotic would have a questionable status. That and people with sketchy pictures who look like they are wasted 150% of the time. Haha.
