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funny photoshop play This would be another example of a meme. I hope no one feels as if this is a racial or otherwise abrasive. I would hate it if I knew the kid, but is the internet hs made him some random kid...yes? Google "Looter Guy" for another example of photoshop meme creation.

"This LipDub has been produced during the integration week of UQAM (Quebec, Canada) with 172 communication students. Made on September 10th 2009 in 2h15min."

Issued on April 6, 2010 in San Francisco. This article was written by Miguel Helft in the New York Times. He is a well known author for the New York Times that covers Internet companies such as Google or Yahoo. This article discusses how photographers and other artists filed a lawsuit against google for the mass copying their work. The artists claimed that they were not adequately compensated by google for the use of their work. Google was given permission from the visual artists to scan their work onto the website, however the artists feel that this partnering program with Google turned out to be unfair. Google is now being sued for copyright infringement. This article is informative to all people because it shows that even largely popular websites like Google may not be as trustworthy as perceived.

Date issued: July 30, 2008. A video explanation of creative commons directed by Jesse Dylan and produced by Michelle Meier and Priscilla Cohen. The video focuses on the explanation of how creative commons allows creators to give permission to allow other artists to use their stuff and collaborate with it. It talks about how creative commons now allows people from different parts of the world to feel free to work with something that someone else from another part of the world created. It allows more people to come together and collaborate with one another.

In this article MTV openly defends its new hit reality show Jersey Shore, against an Italian American Group that believes the show is "offensive and bordering on racist." Unico a group that promotes and enhances the image of Italian Americans and feels that this reality show is completely contradicting everything they stand for. The show follows eight self proclaimed Guido and guidettes, which is a contradictory term used in the Italian-American society.

This article is biased however it does talk about the the controversies that have been occuring and the feelings of Italian- Americans. It is interesting how some of the people that said that they disliked the show because of it's portrayals of Italian Americans say that they still find the show to be entertaining. Because TV is supposed to be entertaining, it makes you think about at what cost TV should be entertaining.

this article discusses how young minds do not feel affected by the stereotypes in Jersey Shore, and how they neglect them.

This is the fundamental obstacle to understanding where technology culture is heading: increasingly, it's about everything.

This is the fundamental obstacle to understanding where technology culture is heading: increasingly, it's about everything.

This article isn't talking so much about how people are using media literacy but is rather really showing how much it is needed today. Here we see that the Chinese people feel that it is really a necessity to have media literacy in high schools and elementary schools as well. They also believe that it is important to have media literacy because it will enhance global citizenship as well as domestic citizenship. This idea was also organized by the Communication University of China