Posted on 20 January 2009 by keidra
Like a lot of geeky people, I spent much of Inauguration Day (and night) online, riveted to the live streaming feed on CNN and also following the commentary of friends and strangers on Facebook. It was well noted that the transition of whitehouse.gov to reflect the Obama administration occured at noon, before Barack Obama even [...]
Filed under: blogging, internet culture, obama, politics, social media, social networking, social networks | Tagged: blog, blogging, convergence culture, facebook, internet, internet culture, obama, participatory culture, politics, social media, social networking, social networks, user-generated content, white house blog, whitehouse.gov, you tube, you tube | Tagged: blogging | 2 Comments »
Posted on 19 January 2009 by Raizel
Arguably, Obama is the first nerd president. (Considering that Thomas Jefferson’s books were the basis of the Library of Congress, my vote is for second nerd president). Obama, who collected Spider-Man comics as a kid, has now appeared in a sold-out Spiderman comic. And while Obama has more pressing problems to fix — like the [...]
Filed under: American comics, Spiderman, cultural ownership, cute animals, digital divide, government documents, intellectual property, obama, orphan works, politics, public domain, you tube | Tagged: American comics, cultural ownership, cute animals, digital divide, government documents, intellectual property, obama, orphan works, politics, public domain, Spiderman, you tube | 1 Comment »
Posted on 18 January 2009 by keidra
We write about Nine Inch Nails a lot around here at Learned Fangirl. It’s not just because at least one of us is a hugely obsessive NIN fan, it’s because Trent Reznor’s been consistently breaking new ground in his approach to music distribution and fan relations. While not mentioned in his recent book, Remix: Making [...]
Filed under: 1000 true fans, Creative Commons, Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor, consumers, copyright, economic analysis, empirical, fandom, fans, independent labels, intellectual property, internet, licensing/ownership dichotomy, marketing, music, participatory culture, recording industry, remix culture, the recording industry is hastening its own slow death, we own it we can do what we want | Tagged: 1000 true fans, consumers, copyright, Creative Commons, economic analysis, empirical, fandom, fans, independent labels, intellectual property, internet, licensing/ownership dichotomy, marketing, music, Nine Inch Nails, participatory culture, recording industry, remix culture, Trent Reznor, we own it we can do what we want | 7 Comments »
Posted on 12 January 2009 by Raizel
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, is the highly recommended third book by Laurence Lessig, focusing on why and how copyright laws need to be changed to allow for greater innovation. If you’ve read the two previous books The future of ideas: the fate of the commons in a connected world [...]
Filed under: Creative Commons, Cultural appropriation, consumers, convergence culture, copyright, cultural memory, cultural ownership, economic analysis, fans, fanworks, free culture, intellectual property, internet culture, moral rights, open source, orphan works, participatory culture, political economy, public domain, remix culture, social norms, the best fan or customer is mad, user-generated content | Tagged: consumers, convergence culture, copyright, Creative Commons, Cultural appropriation, cultural memory, cultural ownership, economic analysis, fans, fanworks, free culture, intellectual property, internet culture, Laurence Lessig, moral rights, open source, orphan works, participatory culture, political economy, public domain, remix culture, social norms, the best fan or customer is mad, user-generated content | 1 Comment »
