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When I first started reading fan fiction, way back when I was about 12, Harry Potter was the first type of fan fiction I read. This article is older, but it concerns JK Rowling (author if the HP books) giving her consent to her fans abducting her characters.

350 million people use Facebook, most every single day, and it has doubled in growth every year for the past 2 years. It is becoming a major cultural force, read about the effects its having.

This is part of a series of provocative critiques by Stanley Fish of the discourse of digital humanities. Essentially he calls for a revised view of digital humanities that takes into account literary critical concerns with reception, ambiguity, and so on. Well work reading.

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This is FanFiction.net, my personal preferred site for fanfiction- or at least the one that, when I really enjoyed reading it, I went to all the time. This site is very well organized and has great search features for going through the archives.

I'm sure by now most college students have heard of chat roulette. Before reading on, I will warn everyone that before you click on the link, there may be some offensive material. Anyways, chat roulette is a website that allows people with webcams to speak through microphones, or type in a chat bar, with anyone in the world that has also has a webcam. There has been recent coverage by the media concerning the innapropriate material that some users have been filming. However perverted some users may be, chat roulette is an interesting new way to communicate with people via the web. There are two things about this website that I think are interesting. The first is that the site is run by a 17 year old in a European country. The fact that at any given time, there are over 30,000 people connected to the site makes this a potential goldmine for advertisers. The second thing I find interesting is that while the site is meant for communication, almost nobody uses it to speak to other individuals. It is mostly used to satisfy the curiousity and voyeuristic tendencines that lie within most of us. The average user will just click through random people without speaking to anyone. This says something about the way the internet may be breaking down communication in some aspects, instead of uplifting it

This is a very popular book list. To be on the New York Times Best Seller list would be an accomplishment for any author. Interesting to note that on the first page two best sellers have currenly been released as movies.

This journal talks about the affects of multimedia on student learning at the elementary level.

The Constitution grants Congress the power "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries ..." Copyright coverage under the law now includes: architectural design, software, the graphic arts, motion pictures, and sound recordings. It includes articles by writers written and published on the internet. Read more at Suite101: Copyright Infringement of Internet Articles: Significant Penalties for Stealing a Writer's Work http://law.suite101.com/article.cfm/copyright_infringement_of_internet_articles#ixzz0etrpeZ3M