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Reminded me of the copyright and plagiarism discussions we had in class. I thought it would be an okay reference.

- another possible source of artistry on the web that could hold connections amongst authors with a common theme in nature, not sure if I'll use this one or not

This article from Wikipedia simply defines authorship i a collaborative process. It gives a perspective from an academic point, as well as in an artistic sense. There is a lot of collaborative processes that go on in media or writing today.

what post secret is created from.

The PostSecret Community site offers information to members of the PostSecret "community." The site offers access to information on PostSecret events and news as well as the opportunity to chat with the creator of PostSecret, Frank Warren. The site also answers questions that are likely raised by users of the PostSecret website. I choose to bookmark this site because it demonstrates the sense of community that users achieve from visiting sites that feature work from anonymous authors. Although the members of the PostSecret community remain unknown to one another, they still feel as though they are unified by the project.

The Online Gamers Anonymous website offers an interesting take on anonymous online authorship. In the case of "excessive game players," it is likely that these site users are especially interested in protecting their identities. Still, this website allows suffers of excessive game playing to access information about their problems and interact with other online gamers without giving away their identities. The site offers numerous resources for gamers and their families including, chat rooms, meetings, world news, and information about other organizations that seek to help online gamers to overcome their problems. Users can also write in about their own experiences and offer their help to others.

"Free Online Poetry Community, Submit Your Poetry Free" - link is an example of nature in poetry, used for my google.docs presentation

Where the postsecret community adds even more personal touch to this project

Postcards from Splitsville - Children expressing themselves about divorce. A local school in Alabama using Post Secret as therapy for children of divorce.

Video Search, Don-Wrege--Internet-Author-interviewed-by-Robert-Carl-Cohen This interview took place in 1997, and Wrege talks about many of the incredible changes that the internet has brought about. He discusses multimedia as it first began, then goes into discussing how he uses his column to give people information. Setting up links within his writing and allowing people to respond immediately are just a few things that are seen as average today, but in '97 seem almost ground-breaking because of the way Wrege and his interviewer discuss them.

J. R. Carpenter is an award winning fiction writer, poet, and web artist based in Montreal. Entre Ville was commissioned by OBORO New Media Lab for the 50th anniversary of the Conseil des Arts de Montreal. This piece of work is very interesting. It is like The Cape because it can be viewed in any order, but there is a sense of where to begin and how to continue, but the reader can choose for himself. It also challenges the difference between reality and fiction, for example, a particular part discussing a dog walking a human and the sort of life that would be if you only got outside three times a day.

An Internet celebrity, cyberstar or online celebrity is someone who has become famous by means of the Internet. Such fame is based less upon raw numbers, as with traditional media. Instead, the wide reach of the Internet allows people to reach a narrow audience across the world and so become famous within a particular internet community. Many millions of people write online journals or weblogs. In many cases, they write anonymously or their focus is upon a specialist topic. But if the author has or develops a distinctive personality, their fame will derive from this as much as from the content of their blog.

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This article is from JSTOR, it is written by M.Mayer and J.E. Till. It is an article explaining how many problems encountered on the Internet will be unmmanageable.Some of these problems include authorship, blank websites, and how the global network has pros and cons. The article is written from a scientific point of view, so it deals less with opinion and more with research based ideas. This will benefit my project because I can use some of these ideas on multimedia writing, and the Internet in general to support my theory on authorship.

This article remarks on the efficiency of blogs in reporting news and other world events. The article tells how news about major events such as September 11th and the Indian Ocean tsunami was posted on blogs before it appeared on major news sites. The article goes on to tell how blogs were used to collect relief supplies and donations for disasters. This example demonstrates how Internet users throughout the country and the world are using anonymous sites, such as blogging sites, to reach out to one another during times of need. Bloggers can connect with readers and other bloggers and even send money and donations to causes without having to reveal their identities.

This is an article I found on Google Scholar. This article examines the use of social-networking sites and how we really use them to interact with friends. Social-Networking sites are designed to help us keep in contact with our "friends", however it seems that the more friends we have on these sites the less we actually interact with them. This study used Twitter as a means to study just how many "followers" one has and how many of them do they really keep in touch with on a daily basis. This is an important/article I can use for my project because I am studying the use of Twitter and Authorship. Many use Twitter to as a way to elicit thoughts to others, but who are they thoughts going to if they aren't our everyday friends? This study could reveal why so many of our thoughts are being used and taken from us, because we are allowing people to see them who we do not even know. I may be able to use examples from this article to support who uses Twitter and for what reasons.

This is an article I got off of Google Scholar. This article explains a study that was conducted that examined Social-Networking sites and the use of friends. Social-networking sites are designed to help us keep in contact and interact with people we know. However, this study reveals how the more "friends" one has, the less they interact with them. This article looks at just how many people we do use social-networking sites to acutally interact with on a daily basis. Twitter is used in this study to examine how many "followers" people have but how many of them are thier actual friends. This will be a useful site for my project because it examines who uses Twitter and why.

This is an article from Project Muse. It talks about the sincerity of authorship in blogs. It relates the idea of a diary to a blog, and views blogging in a very personal sense. Considering the personal value of a blog, you can understand how authorship on blogging sites (TFLN), would fall under this umbrella of something not being considered plagiarized. This will benefit me greatly in writing my paper because I am mainly speaking about authorship in relation to anonymity, and the sites I am reviewing deal with some aspect of blogging.

An essay on computer games as a "folk genre," situated between high art and popular culture, and very much invented by its users. Includes useful reference to the Sims.

This article discusses how online feedback mechanisms are bringing new meaning to "word of mouth." Through online forums, businesses can reach large audiences at little cost. Furthermore, "individuals can make their personal thoughts, reactions, and opinions easily accessible to the global community of Internet users." The site relates to my project because it references several online communities and discusses how these groups of people use the Internet to communicate. The article mentions Epinions.com, Moviefone.com, and CitySearch.com. These are sites where users can evaluate movies, restaurants, bars, and other businesses. Individuals who visit these sites to read reviews are not concerned with who wrote the articles, but instead the advice that they offer. Therefore, these sites are examples of ways that Internet users are taking advantage of online anonymity to connect with others and to seek their opinions.