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Sandy Baldwin

The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By Jonathan Lethem (Harper's Magazine) - 0 views

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culture sharing plagiarism copyright writing remix

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  • higher cribbing
  • worth
  • se for perpetual copyright is a denial of the essential gift-aspect of the creative act.
  • Sandy Baldwin on 24 Feb 12
     
    Highly influential article about the essentially plagiaristic nature of all culture production, an article that itself is composed entirely of "borrowed texts." An excellent short and direct argument for uncreative writing.
Ben Bishop

Brainy Gamer - 1 views

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gaming culture writing design literature

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  • Ben Bishop on 18 Apr 12
     
    Blod devoted to videogame "archaeology" as Bogost would call it. The site actually suggests reading his book too.
Benjamin Myers

The NCTE Definition of 21st Century Literacies - 0 views

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digital web writing Social literacy

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  • Benjamin Myers on 14 Mar 12
     
    "Adopted by the NCTE Executive Committee, February 15, 2008 Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups. As society and technology change, so does literacy. Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the twenty-first century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies."
anonymous

How Language Shapes the Culture of Facebook - 0 views

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facebook writing patterns

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  • anonymous on 23 Mar 12
     
    A writer for Facebook (wow, that seems like such a weird way of putting it) explains the rationale behind the site's language and features such as the "Like" button. We can connect this to the patterns in Designing Social Interfaces.
Eric Wardell

Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past - 0 views

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history open source wikipedia future

shared by Eric Wardell on 04 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • possessive individualism
  • A historical work without owners and with multiple, anonymous authors is thus almost unimaginable in our professional culture
  • freedom
  • ...14 more annotations...
  • “avoid bias.”
  • Are Wikipedians good historians? As in the old tale of the blind men and the elephant, your assessment of Wikipedia as history depends a great deal on what part you touch. It also depends, as we shall see, on how you define “history.”
    • Eric Wardell
      Eric Wardell on 04 Apr 12
       
      A parable often used to describe the different interpretations of religion.
  • You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either commercially or noncommercially, provided … you add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this License.”
  • Wikipedia as History
  • online historical writing
  • Part of the problem is that such broad synthetic writing is not easily done collaboratively.
  • Yet what is most impressive is that Wikipedia has found unpaid volunteers to write surprisingly detailed and reliable portraits of relatively obscure historical figures—for example, 900 words on the Union general Romeyn B. Ayres.
  • whatever-centric,” they acknowledge in one of their many self-critical commentaries.
  • Wikipedia can act as a megaphone, amplifying the (sometimes incorrect) conventional wisdom.
  • great democratic triumph of Wikipedia—its demonstration that people are eager for free and accessible information resources.
  • Even Jimmy Wales, who has been more tolerant of “difficult people” than Sanger, complained about “an unfortunate tendency of disrespect for history as a professional discipline.”
  • Wikipedia's view of history is not only more anecdotal and colorful than professional history, it is also—again like much popular history—more factualist.
  • the problem of Wikipedian history is not that it disregards the facts but that it elevates them above everything else and spends too much time and energy (in the manner of many collectors) on organizing those facts into categories and lists.
  • also affect how scholarly work is produced, shared, and debated
  • Eric Wardell on 04 Apr 12
     
    This is an article that discusses the views of professional historians regarding wikipedia. I think it makes a number of interesting claims both regarding the management or historical data and wikipedia's role in promoting a particular historical paradigm.
Christine Schussler

The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality - 0 views

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education society politics innovation

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  • Christine Schussler on 22 Feb 12
     
    This is an interesting article about how "the digital humanities is really an insurgent humanities," and how this is a revolution of sharing ideas that, "affirms the value of the open, the infinite, the expansive [and] the democratization of culture and scholarship.""
Jillian Swisher

N. Katherine Hayles Interview - YouTube - 1 views

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shared by Jillian Swisher on 22 Feb 12 - No Cached
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      Jillian Swisher on 22 Feb 12
       
      I found Hayles's views on authorship and Wikipedia to be particularly interesting: {12:03} "I'm not alarmed by Wikipedia. In fact, I think Wikipedia is the best source for some aspects of popular culture. . . And it really is a framework that draws on all the expert knowledge that's out there that doesn't exist in the authorized channels. To me, that's a great thing." {12:58} "It used to be that one would be an author in the sense of producing a print book. That print book would be vetted by expert readers at the press. . . But in Wikipedia, there's a very vibrant back-and-forth between all manner of readers and contributors. . . Rather than being off completely separate from print, in fact, Wikipedia has very complex cross-connections with print authority."
  • Jillian Swisher on 22 Feb 12
     
    Here's an interesting interview with N. Katherine Hayles (author of this week's readings) for a program called The Artist's Craft. Hayles talks about some of the concepts found in this week's readings and also touches upon some new ideas. I find the material to be extremely accessible in this Q&A format.
Jessica Murphy

RSA Animate - The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens? - 0 views

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digital web internet politics social culture society democracy government freedom

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  • Jessica Murphy on 23 Feb 12
     
    This RSA adaptation of Evgeny Morozov's 2009 talk illustrates (and examines) the concept of "cyber-utopianism": the theory that the internet "plays a largely emancipatory role in global politics." Morozov discusses whether or not the internet predominately empowers or censors citizens by facilitating activism and allowing individuals to disseminate information more effectively.
Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang

FBI director: Cyber-threats will become top worry - 1 views

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hacking cyber-threats security internet

shared by Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang on 02 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang on 02 Mar 12
     
    As the parameters of cultural capital changes and cyber-literacy assumes central stage, security agencies such as the FBI also take note and understand that they have to re-adjust to cater to the threat that hackers pose.
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