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Lawrence Lessig deals with the read/write remix culture and the copyright laws that are attempting to strangle this new form of expression. The father of Creative Commons, Lessig exposes intellectual property law and its absurdity in today's internet culture. The website offers clips of Lessig's presentations about this topic. This will be helpful for my topic, which is essentially a form of read/write collaborative remixing. This will help me to define the laws governing this innovative culture.

a form of digital graffiti is explored

This website explains what OpenID is and how it benefits users. Essentially, OpenID is a program that allows users to use a single online identity to log into various websites. The OpenID program saves users time by preventing them from having to create separate profiles for individual websites. Open ID also allows users to be in control of what personal details are revealed online. While the OpenID website states that the program will give users "greater control over [their] online identity," I also feel that the use of this program will discourage users from listing false information about themselves. If Internet users know that the personal details they provide will be available across an array of websites, they will be more likely to provide truthful information. For example, if an individual uses Myspace to meet new people and form online relationships, he or she may be likely to list false personal information in order to impress or attract others. However, if this individual knows that this same information will be shared among his or her professional colleagues through email accounts or other sites, he or she will be less likely to lie.

A paradox of sociology at the turn of the 21st century was that the discipline had largely abandoned the empirical study of journalistic organizations and news institutions at the moment when the media had gained visibility in political, economic, and cultural spheres; when other academic fields had embraced the study of media and society; and when leading sociological theorists had broken from the disciplinary canon to argue that the media are key actors in modern life. The author examines the point of journalistic production in one major news organization in the late 1990's and shows how reporters and editors managed constraints of time, space, and market pressure under regimes of convergence news making. The study considers the implications of these conditions for the particular forms of intellectual and cultural labor that journalists produce, drawing connections between the political economy of the journalistic field, the organizational structure of multimedia firms, new communications technologies, and the qualities of content created by media workers.

A home decor instruction - one of many that have influenced my projects and designs. The sharing of information in the form of instruction seems like an interesting facet of multi-media writing.

Once just a fad, Twitter is developing into a powerful form of communication. What its growth says about us - and the future of American innovation

American Zoetrope, brainchild of Francis Ford Coppola, is an online community dedicated to workshopping many forms of art, ranging from short stories to songwriting to costume design. Members are required to provide constructive feedback on a certain number of works before they can post their own works on the site.

This article provides a harsh criticism to YouTube, saying that it encroaches upon the "legitimacy and perhaps even survival of forms of vernacular creativity." This source was found through Project Muse and published in the "Cinema Journal." In regards to my project, it will be useful to have an opposing perspective to the videos posted upon YouTube. This perspective will help me to determine my theories and opinions on user-generated remixes and extensions of popular media.

Project Mortified puts a comical spin on items collected from peoples' pasts included journals, old love letters, and home movies. The "Woe & Tell" section allows users to post poems and pictures anonymously. I feel that this site is relevant to my project because it demonstrates one of the various forms of online authorship. Through the use of sites such as GetMortified.com, Internet users can become online authors without even writing anything at all, but instead by submitting something they have created in the past. Everyone has been an author at some point in their lives, and this site gives individuals the opportunity to publish their work no matter how comical, incomplete or just bad it is.

a vast website full of sources for various forms of art from painting to fiber arts - on the web and available from this one source - a great source showing the interconnection of artists and artistry on the web - aptly named artspan

A blog on the subject that the website "Texts From Last Night" is becoming a book.

An article on the famous website "Texts From Last Night" becoming a sitcom

Authorship and Blogging (haven't read the whole thing yet)

Wiki page for Mulitmedia. Bookmarked for two reasons: 1) It defines the term and 2) Wikipedia is a form of collaborative Multimedia.

This Wiki page gives a greater insight into the term multimedia. It talks about what falls into the category for multimedia, the history of the term, characterisitics, research, and which creative industries make use of multimedia. It gives a good look at the purpose, and allows areas to question which can bring up topics about authorship.