ENGL 303: Multimedia Writing

A look at 'Erased de Kooning' showing that sometimes art can be the unmaking of art.

This website provides a huge amount of resources to fans. Not only does it provide blogs and a video board, it includes groups that promote Team Jacob, Team Bella, and Team Edward. The website provides fans with the latest news about the series, including clips from the new movie and the songs that will appear on the Twilight soundtrack. This website will provide insight into the phenomenon of fans creating their own videos and will help me to understand the motivations for the fan remixes.

This is a very impressive page dedicated to the legal side of fanfiction. The author is in her 20s, which is also very impressive, considering the amount of detail offered up here.

This site is all about questions and answers concerning fanfiction. The main focus is on copyright, trademark, and other laws. The First Amendment pops up a few times, as well.

There is some talk within this paper about the importance of nature in our everyday lives. I will be interested to see what has to be said here.

There is some talk of different people having different views of nature and issues therein concerning conservation in this case. I'm hoping that this will help to answer my question about why people feel the way they do about nature. I haven't read it all the way through, but it seems promising.

Socialite Life has the lastest celebrity news. This information is posted onto this online website.

Reviews three 1997 books that attempt to unravel the origin, process, or consumption of 20th-century celebrity: Herbert G. Goldman's 'Banjo Eyes: Eddie Cantor and the Birth of Modern Stardom,' Leonard Leff's 'Hemingway and His Conspirators: Hollywood, Scribner's, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture,' and P. David Marshall's 'Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture.' Goldman's biography and Leff's analysis of Hemingway focus on the production of stardom, but Goldman ignores the dense cultural interplay of ideology and commerce that supports and disseminates fame. Marshall's elaborate theorizing cannot support his claim that audiences appropriate and reconceptualize Oprah Winfrey, Tom Cruise, and New Kids on the Block. Greater periodization is needed to further the exploration of celebrity begun by these works.

Discusses the role of the press agent in the early 20th century in maintaining public illusions about theater celebrities. The rise of cheap daily newspapers looking for sensational news and human interest stories increased the demand for publicity. This need for news gave rise to false stories designed to enhance the image of the star performer, who often was more than willing to present a certain personality to the public. Publicity for Sarah Bernhardt's 1906 tour was an example of the rising importance of the press agent in the early 20th century.

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.

In the Internet environment, media must not only compete with one another but with a host of newcomers, including online companies with no traditional media ties and a variety of other entrepreneurs. This article reports the results of a content analysis of 422 Web sites associated with local newspapers, radio stations, and television stations in 25 of the largest metro markets in the United States. Results show that each medium has a relatively distinctive content emphasis, while each attempts to utilize its Web site to maximize institutional goals. Market size is found to be a relatively unimportant factor in shaping the content of these Web sites, but media type helps explain how these Web sites are differentiated. [J]

Newspaper columnist Walter Winchell coined the term 'celebutante' in 1939, referring to socialite Brenda Frazier and other quasi-celebrities of the day. The creation of blogs has morphed the word, resulting in the proliferation of the use of the prefix 'celebu-.' New words created with 'celebu-' have been used on the Internet and in other media to describe a variety of persons with celebrity-like status, including Paris Hilton, thus illustrating the linguistic impact of blogs.

MungBeing Magazine Issue #12: a bimonthly online magazine - the only magazine to thematically connect the concept of thematically-connected issues to the production of the issue itself.

Interview with Frank Warren

My creations, pictures, and so forth on the sims...

This article found on Project Muse is about digital rhetoric. This article answers questions about "how reading and writing practices change in digital environments...and the dynamics of digital ownership and issues of authoring, authority, and intellectual property in computer-mediated, networked spaces." THIS ARTICLE IS HIGHLY RELEVANT TO MY RESEARCH TOPIC.

This article found on Project Muse is about the materiality of of technology and how in order to get a glimpse of the future of writing and libraries, we must understand the technologies by which we are accessing this information. Also this article mentions how these technologies shape our social and cultural environments.

Fell in love with this site. Users can create stories using images and text. Compositions are posted for anyone to view. Shockwave and quicktime are used here. Many different facets to this one site as shown in the links at the top of the page such as photos, stories, video, etc.

This master's thesis uses sociological methods to discover why Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight" series has become such a cult phenomenon. This article is relevant to my project, which focuses on YouTube "remixes" of the popular series. This article will help to explain why such a large portion of the population is attracted to the series. It may also be useful in ascertaining the force that drives the creators of the videos perpetuate their multimedia expressions.

A music community where users contribute pieces of music and collaborate to build a finished product. The service includes real-time chat and free editing software.