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"The word culture has many different meanings.  For some it refers to an appreciation of good literature, music, art, and food." To understand how new media and technology connect to culture, we must understand what culture is. This is a great resource!

"Law provides copyright protection to creative works in order to foster the creation of culture. Its best known feature is protection of owners' rights. But copying, quoting, and generally re-using existing cultural material can be, under some circumstances, a critically important part of generating new culture. "

"Educators today confront an ever-shifting landscape when it comes to Internet technologies and their potential for expanding participatory cultures. Henry Jenkins, director of the Comparative Media Studies department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explores new frameworks for literacy through the lens of participatory culture."

This slide show covers the basics in a pretty pleasing way and outlines the important concepts that we ready about in Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture.

Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons: A Youtube video assessing the impact of fair use and its cultural impact -- specifically, the impact of art upon other artists and how referencing and sometimes even imitating other works of art has helped shape art and culture as a whole. The video shows various examples of artworks that have used each other as references and is a good way to understand the importance behind this.

How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production

This video helps us further understand the ideas portrayed by Flew's article by discussing how technology has had an affect on work culture.

Participatory media enable broad participation in the production of culture, power, community, and wealth.

Show the influence of digital media in a participatory culture

jenkins book on Participatory Culture

In advertising, association (or the "association principle") is: A. a persuasion method that links the product with a setting, person, cultural concept, or positive feeling.

Talks about shared culture and creative commons. 

The bounds for new media are set by five "principles of new media" present in most new media objects, which "should be considered not as absolute laws but rather as general tendencies of a culture undergoing computerization"

Explains more about the culture that has been created using the internet as a source of information and how communication has increased due to this phenomenon. It helped me draw connects to how we perceive the internet today and the history of the internet.

"In the visual digital culture landscape, the interaction between media technologies demands a critical approach to describe such relationships. Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin�s Remediation: understanding new media sets up the theoretical parameters and close-reading examples to describe interactions between old and new media."

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This video on Youtube breaks down the evolution and broadness of the term interactivity and is actually pretty entertaining.