ENGL307: Digital Writing

Creative Commons website

found some interesting things about music, such as as long as you don't stray to far from the orignal work song structures and their lyrics are not protected under the copyright laws.

Fair Use and it's benefits

"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. "

Milton 18th Century England among other valuable historic examples of copyright

A follow up book to his first, mean to discuss how hypertext and other electronic writings help to "remediate" print

Takes a look at the effect of campaign advertising and the message it sends to its viewers

anyone familiar with OWL will appreciate this as it is essentially the same thing but pertaining to the law.

Remediation has influenced digital writing because it causes students to rethink how their words are perceived by others. It also influences students to produce media like web pages.

Remediation is used in music to refashion live versions of media. The live version is recreated and multiplied, creating a studio and synthesized final version of the product.

This website provided a great run down on the book Remediation and the theory behind it. It was a great supplement to the reading and really helped me further my understanding of it. Remediation is something that is constantly going on around us, and is very important to understand. It is the driving force for the progress of our media.

an article to better understand transcoding

I thought this was an interesting article.  I wonder what's next...

Twitter is now considered the CNN of this generation

Much of new media is formed with social changes. The more variable new media is, the more it appeals to the individuality of this generation.

"Many of the specific examples provided in Lev Manovich's discussion of new media's variability suffer from an imprecision that leaves unclear just how the Principle of Variability ought to be properly applied when thinking about new media objects" This article relates to the Manovich reading and variability.

We define "new media" as interactive forms of communication that use the Internet, including podcasts, RSS feeds, social networks, text messaging, blogs, wikis, virtual worlds and more! << this article relates new media to HIV.

"Lev Manovich sites the five principles of New Media as Numerical Presentation, modularity, automation, variability, and transcoding. It is the second category, modularity, with which I seem to take issue" Blog entry, in which the other takes issue with Manovich's "modularity" category.

Once you learn exactly why good design is CRAP, then you, too, will see vast improvements in your designs as well.

For anyone who has not used newbie if you can not figure out something digital check here first there are tons of user generate tutorials to help you out.

For beginning website design newbie is a great tool for any form of digital mediums.

thought this was a pretty cool intro in coding

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"