Posts Tagged ‘ Google ’

Value Creation Through Digital Commons: Complicating the Discourse

Value Creation Through Digital Commons: Complicating the Discourse

How do producers of digital commons establish relations with the market, and how do they create economic value through their practices? An attempt to go beyond common misconceptions is done through looking at the phenomenon of “open movies” production within the 3D Blender and 2D Synfig animation communities.
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Google’s Aesthetic Turn: One Simple Beautiful Useful Google

January 13, 2014
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Google’s Aesthetic Turn: One Simple Beautiful Useful Google

In this latest entry in the Aesthetic Turn series, Megan Sapnar Ankerson explores how Google's aesthetic shift from "transparency" to "beauty" serves as a site for critical engagement with the aesthetics of digital artifacts.
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Why Verizon v. FCC Matters for Net Neutrality— and Why It Doesn’t

September 6, 2013
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Why Verizon v. FCC Matters for Net Neutrality— and Why It Doesn’t

The policy battle over net neutrality is heating back up with the hearing in Verizon v. FCC. Here's what's at stake in the case.
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In Fair Use, Freedom Does Not Equal Progress

June 14, 2013
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In Fair Use, Freedom Does Not Equal Progress

An appeal of fair use case Cariou v. Prince (2013) has implications far beyond the art world, into the digital and other forms of media, while also raising the issue of what is moral in fair use, not just legal.
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What Are You Missing? May 12 – May 25

May 26, 2013
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What Are You Missing? May 12 – May 25

Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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The Cost of Interfaces

March 19, 2013
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The Cost of Interfaces

Boycotting Facebook is getting harder, particularly because of the complete invisibility and unawareness of the nature of the social networking site to its members.
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What Are You Missing? Feb 17-March 2

March 3, 2013
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What Are You Missing? Feb 17-March 2

Ten media news items that you might have missed recently.
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What Are You Missing? Nov 25 – Dec 8

December 9, 2012
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What Are You Missing? Nov 25 – Dec 8

Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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What Are You Missing? May 13-26

May 27, 2012
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What Are You Missing? May 13-26

Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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What Are You Missing? Apr 29-May 12

May 13, 2012
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What Are You Missing? Apr 29-May 12

Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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What Are You Missing? April 1-14

April 15, 2012
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What Are You Missing? April 1-14

Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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The Google+ Assignment—Evaluation

April 7, 2012
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The Google+ Assignment—Evaluation

Using Google+ for student assignments in a TV genre class would, ideally, link learning with social technologies students are already using, and spur students to consume social media more critically. As with all experiments there was some success and some failure.
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