Skip to main content

Home/ CMN450 (03) Participatory Media/ Group items tagged act

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Janelle Tyme

Bill C-11 - Canada's "New and Improved" Copyright Act - Intellectual Property - Canada - 0 views

www.mondaq.com/...New+and+Improved+Copyright+Act

bill canada improved copyright act intellectual property media technology

shared by Janelle Tyme on 17 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Janelle Tyme on 17 Feb 14
     
    This article thoroughly explains Bill C-11, Canada's revised Copyright Act, and lays it out in more simplified terms with relation to a wide spectrum of IP.
jorybrodkin

Introduction to Genre Theory - 0 views

www.aber.ac.uk/...intgenre2.html

genre theory reading writing

shared by jorybrodkin on 01 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • reducing complexity
  • frameworks may function to make form
  • transparent
  • ...28 more annotations...
  • foregrounding the distinctive content of individual texts
  • genre is a framework within which to make sense of related texts
  • genre knowledge is typically tacit and would be difficult for most readers to articulate as any kind of detailed and coherent framework
  • one needs to encounter sufficient examples of a genre in order to recognize shared features as being characteristic of it
  • are mediating frameworks between texts, makers and interpreters.
  • genre makes possible the communication of content
  • constrains the possible ways in which a text is interpreted, guiding readers of a text towards a preferred reading
  • film requires several acts of "framing" it: as a fiction, as a Hollywood movie, as a comedy, as a Steve Martin movie, as a "summer movie" and so on
  • Genres offer an important way of framing texts which assists comprehension
  • orientates competent readers of the genre towards appropriate attitudes, assumptions and expectations
  • principal factor
  • directing of audience choice and of audience expectations
  • organizing of the subsets of cultural competences and dispositions
  • watching, listening to and reading
  • Familiarity with a genre enables readers to generate feasible predictions about events in a narrative
  • Different genres
  • contracts
  • between the text and the reader.
  • expectations on each side
  • communication
  • functions
  • epistemology
  • communicative
  • frame
  • offer various emotional pleasures such as empathy and escapism
  • identification of a text as part of a genre
  • enables potential readers to decide whether it is likely to appeal to them
  • derive a variety of pleasures from reading texts within genres which are orientated towards entertainment
  • jorybrodkin on 01 Feb 14
     
    This piece describes how genre is effective in reading and other forms of rhetoric. It can allow readers to get deeper into text, and understand the form of communication on paper. Similarly to genres in movies and TV, genre in written works allow a reader to get the sense of what is "going on". Reading more and more, a reader is able to understand and decipher which genre is which. They also enable readers to connect emotionally to a text, and experience feelings of the writer/characters.
Sasha Solomon

Kopimism: the world's newest religion explained - 0 views

www.newscientist.com/...newest-religion-explained.html

shared by Sasha Solomon on 18 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Sasha Solomon on 18 Feb 14
     
    A religious group dedicated to worshiping the act of copyrighting. One part of this groups religious practices is copying information as a way of worshipping it.
Rhonda Atkinson

How To Design for Viral Growth [Infographic] - 0 views

www.dtelepathy.com/...design-viral-growth

Viral media Infographic communication Design social media+society

shared by Rhonda Atkinson on 25 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Rhonda Atkinson on 25 Mar 14
     
    This dynamic and info-packed Infographic highlights how to design for viral growth. The author, Morgan Brown discusses virality, how to make viral designs, and sums its all up in one neat infographic that is compelling, easily embedded into personal websites, and acts as a good reference sheet. A must to keep in mind when designing content for online promotion.
1 - 4 of 4
Showing 20▼ items per page