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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Tags: animation, Blender Institute, copyleft, Cosmos Laundromat, Creative Commons, digital commons, Google, Google Summer of Code, Gooseberry, IJCS, International Journal of Cultural Studies, media labor, Morevna Project, open source, software, The Beautiful Queen Marya Morevna, unpaid labor
Posted in Columns, International Journal of Cultural Studies | Comments Off on Value Creation Through Digital Commons: Complicating the Discourse
A federal appeals court just ended net neutrality because the FCC didn't call it what it is: common carriage.
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Tags: AT&T, broadband, Comcast, common carriage, Discourse, FCC, Google, net neutrality, Open Internet, policy, policy sphere, policymaking, regulation, Verizon
Posted in Current Events, Industry, Industry, Internet, Internet, Perspectives, Politics, Politics, Technology, Technology | 3 Comments »
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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Tags: apps, beautiful revolution, design, Google, information aesthetics, internet, Larry Page, media aesthetics, mobile, PageRank, search engines, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Susan Sontag, touch, ubicomp, UX, web design
Posted in The Aesthetic Turn | 2 Comments »
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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Tags: AT&T, broadband, Comcast, FCC, Google, net neutrality, Open Internet, policy, regulation, Verizon
Posted in Industry, Industry, Internet, Internet, Perspectives, Technology, Technology | 1 Comment »
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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Tags: appeal, appropriation, art, circuit court, copyright, culture, Deborah Batts, district court, Fair Use, Google, Koons, law, Patrick Cariou, postmodern, Richard Prince, transformative
Posted in Perspectives | Comments Off on In Fair Use, Freedom Does Not Equal Progress
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Apple, apps, Google, Hulu, Microsoft, Star Trek, Strongbox, Tumblr, Xbox, Xbox One, Yahoo, YouTube
Posted in What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? May 12 – May 25
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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Tags: censorship, Facebook, Google, OTW
Posted in Internet, Perspectives | Comments Off on The Cost of Interfaces
Ten media news items that you might have missed recently.
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Tags: A&E, ABC, Academy Awards, Billboard, Cablevision, CBS, copyright, DirecTV, Dish Network, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, independent film, Kickstarter, music, piracy, PlayStation, Sony, television, Time Warner Cable, Viacom, visual effects, YouTube
Posted in What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Feb 17-March 2
What Are You Missing? links back on 2012.
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Tags: box office, digital media, e-readers, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, independent film, iTunes, magazines, music, newspapers, porn, television, Twitter, video games, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | 1 Comment »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Academy Awards, advertising, apps, Blockbuster, digital music, Disney, distribution, Facebook, Google, magazines, MPAA, MySpace, Netflix, newspapers, piracy, Redbox, social media, streaming, tax credits, television, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Nov 25 – Dec 8
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: apps, Cannes, copyright, e-readers, Facebook, Google, magazines, mobile technology, movie theaters, music, newspapers, Pandora, piracy, politics, social media, Spotify, television, Twitter
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? May 13-26
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Academy Awards, Blu-ray, books, canada, digital distribution, digital media, documentary, DVD, e-readers, gaming, Google, Hollywood, Microsoft, mobile technology, movie theaters, privacy, search engines, television, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Apr 29-May 12
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, Apple, digital distribution, distribution, Dreamworks, DVDs, e-books, Google, Hollywood, independent bookstores, independent film, internet, LGBTQ, magazines, music, Netflix, newspapers, Spotify, UltraViolet, video games, video on demand, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? April 1-14
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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Tags: Facebook, Google, pedagogy, social media, television genre
Posted in School/Work | 2 Comments »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Apple, Blockbuster, China, cloud services, digital distribution, digital music, distribution, DVDs, Facebook, gaming, Google, Hollywood, independent, iPad, Lionsgate, movie theaters, Netflix, Pinterest, porn, social gaming, social media, Spotify, streaming, television, UltraViolet, video on demand
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Feb 12-March 3
