This article deals with the topic of "fair use," which is the copyright doctrine that allows the use of copyrighted works in certain circumstances without having to gain the owner's permission. It also correlated "fair use" with the popular video sharing website YouTube. This source was found through the database Project Muse. It was printed in the University of Texas Press. Its information is credible and useful. As for my project, this article will be helpful in determining if "fair use" applies in connection with fan remix videos of Twilight. Once this is determined, I will be able to better define the creators of these remixes.
Report on "digital natives." Includes studies of relationships, online gaming, facebookery, etc. Interesting resource and shows the mainstreaming of these topics.
The Microfame Game
There's a new class of celebrity powered by the Internet. The stakes are smaller, but the rewards are within anyone's reach. These are the rules
Read more: The Microfame Game and the New Rules of Internet Celebrity -- New York Magazine http://nymag.com/news/media/47958/#ixzz0YQDD9oYB
"Copyright infringement liability for a later work arises only if the later work embodies a substantial amount of protected expression taken from the earlier, underlying work. The later work must take enough protected expression (it does not matter how much unprotected material is taken, for the latter is open to the public) for the later work to be "substantially similar" to the earlier work."
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 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.
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 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.
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.
This is the wiki site for Urban Dictionary, it tells who created it, and more about what the site includes. There was also a book deal that was created from the site. It tells step by step how the site works for new users.
This website explains how Pandora radio actually works. This site will help me in making comparisons between the "original" idea for radio vs. our multimedia version.
