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the huffington post discusses new media

Chuck D

Totally falls into our discussion from last week about copyright.

SNL mocks the new iphone 5 glitches. Pretty funny.

I use Amazon's kindle e-reader online and, as it turns out, the some publishers inflated the price of their books. Since e-books are relatively new, it's hard to judge what the appropriate price for a story is when there is no manufacturing needed. Some exploit this gap in experience and are being brought to court.

Google's new privacy policy is taking too much of the user's personal information when collecting data. They aren't spelling out their intentions for the data, and this sort of stuff freaks me out. All of these major companies i.e. google, Facebook, twitter have found ways to take more and more information from the user without his knowledge. 

I was on facebook today and noticed a sponsor story button. Apparently, for $7 you can get a status or pic "sponsored", and they will appear more frequently on people's news feeds. 

The Real Housewives has become a popular show with many of today's reality t.v. junkies. Here is a parody dedicated to the women of Orange County and Beverly Hills, California, Atlanta, New York and New Jersey, as well as Miami. 

Like Jenkins discusses in the Participatory Culture, more and more children have access to creating technology that was at first limited to "experts" or adults. This article provides and example of this in Thomas Suarez who is a 12 year old who has created several of his own apps for iPads and iPhones. He has also has created an App Club at his school.

An article about Black Swan and the controversy about how much of the dancing Natalie Portman actually did and how much she unfairly took credit for. It's like plagiarizing!

I posted this not because of politics but because the writer makes a very good statement about new media and how its being share. Basically the power of new media and the effects it has on a campaign, career or public image.

The singing isnt great but the idea of making new art from preexisting concepts makes this parody a remix.