David Bollier’s Viral spiral : how the commoners built a digital republic of their own is a very good book with a horrible title. While…
Ignoring cultural context has led to some incredibly bizarre cease-and-desist notices recently. Yet intellectual property and culture are tied together. New works are not created…
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…
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…
While we can’t make it to every great conference held at MIT by the cutting-edge Comparative Media Studies program, they have put on another great…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQWTxDd4a7E] Two recent books, East Asian pop culture : analysing the Korean wave (EAPC) & Pop goes Korea : behind the revolution in movies, music,…
Some stick with reading comics for their entire lives (the norm in Japan, though the type changes over the lifetime), while others put them away…
While no book can fully explore a culture, two recent books, Sheridan Prasso’s The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, & Our Fantasies of the…
Like other grown fangirls, I have a recent history of reading fantasy literature book series that I’m too damn old for. (Harry Potter, Twilight) While…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkogKAZGm_g] As I previously wrote about in my post, Heart’s Barricuda: A lesson in licensing, ownership, politics, and moral rights, politics and artists have clashed…