Show Me What You Learned (Blog, Blog, Blog, Blog)

My parody of E-40 and Keak the Sneak’s song “Tell Me When To Go” No video, just a static picture. The lyrics can be found here On a serious note, knowing more specifics about convergent culture and copyright law will help me as the collaboration is a goal of mine for my final project, and [...]

Chapter 6 (The Convergence Culture of Campaigning)

Henry Jenkins is very hopeful that the convergence culture will make politics more accessible to all of us, thereby “democratizing” it so that it is part of our everyday lives. The new trend indicates that our politicians haven’t turned their noses up to the notion either. Jenkins rightfully points out Howard Dean’s success at mobilizing [...]

Chapter 5 (Heather and the Haters)

I was enjoying reading in Chapter 5 of Convergence Culture about the wonderful events surrounding Heather and her invention of a “Hogwarts” school newspaper that had a global staff of young contributers. But I found myself increasingly agitated at Jenkins for wasting 10+ pages to recount for us the resistance of roughly 1.75% of North [...]

Week 2 Vid: Good Copy Bad Copy

This documentary deals with the multi faceted issue of copyright, which, in my opinion, is in serious trouble, and brings to mind this quote from Aristotle’s Politics: “Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.” As Lawrence Lessig points out, the law is strangling creativity. As a avid proponent [...]

Chapter 4 (Folk Culture’s Comeback?)

When I teach the different genres of music to my students, I always feel inadequate to explain folk music. It is hard for middle schoolers to conceive of music that there are few recordings of. Sure we have folk rock and bluegrass among others, but those are genres unto themselves. Almost by definition, folk music [...]