In Henry Jenkins article “Taking the You Out of YouTube?”, it is discussed how Web 2.0 places an “emphasis upon participation, social networking, collective intelligence”. It is a fan culture, which creates sites like Youtube, Wikipedia, MySpace, etc. Jenkins explains “ At the heart of the Web 2.0 movement is this idea that there is …
April 2019 archive
Apr 27
Assignment 12: How are mashups posing a potential threat to copyright laws online?
Mashups can be complicated when it comes to copyright laws. Musicians and publishing labels want to protect the music they create while mashup artists would want the freedom of using music that is out there without getting into a lawsuit. These artists want to fully exercise their creative freedom but copyright laws put a limit …
Apr 21
Mashups
Mashups are something that has been seen for a long time when it comes to music according to Sasha Frere-Jones “1+1+1+1 The New Math of Mashups” it mentions that “Mashups find new uses for current digital technology, a new iteration of the cause-and-effect relationship behind almost every change in pop-music aesthetics: the gear changes, and …
Apr 19
Group Activity Evaluation – Social Media
Anthony and I did our class presentation on social media. We created six well informed slides about social media.We discussed how and why social media has affected or impacted us.What we took away from this presentation is that individuals utilize online networking however don’t generally associate as much as they should. Individuals are keen on …
Apr 19
How is piracy hurting the case for copyright online?
Piracy is hurting the case for copyright online because it is utilizing another person’s utilizing another person’s work illicitly without their assent at the end of the day copyright encroachment.Paul Tassi states that “As technology continues to evolve, the battle between pirates and copyright holders is going to escalate, and pirates are always, always going …
Apr 19
Mashups and Their Consequences
The term “mashup” refers to a combining of functionalities or ideas to create something which contributes information greater than the sum of its parts. Internet mashups often take the form of apps. One such app would be the popular dating/hookup app Tinder, which uses information from one’s social media account to match the individual with …
Apr 18
Why is social software a blessing in disguise?
Nowadays we exclusively depend on the web for the vast majority of our day by day movement, social programming has turned into the principle wellspring of correspondence for people. I can say social programming has made correspondence a lot simpler particularly applications like “Fcaebook,twitter,instagram,whatsapp” that enable us to impart universally without running up our telephone …
Apr 18
Why is the medium so important to how we consume digital media?
The medium is the association with how we get or continue on the message, without the medium it is extremely unlikely we can send or get data around each other. There are different ways the medium can be exhibited particularly since time and the computerized media is continually evolving. Marshall Mcluhan made a point that …
Apr 18
How have apps changed the digital delivery marketplace? What will digital currency be used for in the future?
In the article “ The Mobile Browser Is Dead, Long Live The App” by Ewan Spencer discusses how people are spending more time on their devices, they are spending over 2 hours a day on their devices. Spencer states “Users are living in their smartphone’s applications…Users are turning away from the browser and relying on …
Apr 18
How do media forms translate across cultures?
Media has made globalization simpler than at any other time. Individuals can interface with individuals from everywhere throughout the world . Regardless of whether it is sharing images or answering to remarks under a viral post or just to talk, media makes it conceivable. With the snap of a catch, an individual could be associated …