YouTube – a new Hollywood?
Youtube. An innocent act of frustration which led to the activation of the URL youtube.com in February 2005. Since then, the amount of users has exploded in such a phenomenal rate. YouTube’s extremely...
View ArticlePools of peer to peer pirates pillage products.
Before getting too into this, if anyone is a little unclear on what exactly peer-to-peer (p2p) is and how it works, I’d recommend having a little look and the wikipedia pages on “file sharing” and...
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Final Seminar: Participatory Culture Then, Now and Tomorrow
Your core reading/viewing: [X] Axel Bruns. "Produsage: Towards a Broader Framework for User-Led Content Creation." Paper presented at Creativity & Cognition conference, Washington D.C., USA, 13-15...
View Articlea_remix? – Chris
The remix project that I have undertaken is designed to investigate various notions of community, participation, the relationship between producers and users of content and the effects of digital...
View ArticleThe Water Cube
Project Exegesis This video is aimed at talking about participatory culture, community and communication through featuring the Water Cube, which is used as a venue for the Beijing Olympics 2008....
View ArticleGraffiti: from Vandalism to Art
Exegesis: The history of graffiti can be traced back to early 1970s when teens started to write graffiti on walls in the New York subway. What they write are usually ‘name-based painting began as...
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Build / Create > Change
Culture in the twentieth century was controlled by the ever-tighter grip of copyright law, protecting the rights of those who put time, effort and money into their music, film, book or whatever else...
View Articlecopyright < creative commons (aka the history of the world)
Exegesis – Remix Project Copyright is one of the most influential creations of last century – it currently governs what each person, community and country can watch, copy, buy and listen to. It is...
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The End of the Course As We Know It!
Congratulations everyone – the remix projects are done, the exegeses have explained (most of!) your creative thinking and the final comments are posted – your iGeneration journey (or, at least, the...
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iGeneration 2008: Final FAQ (and what can YOU do with this course?)
iGeneration: Digital Communication and Participatory Culture 2008 was an honours course in Communication Studies at the University of Western Australia. The unit coordinator was Tama Leaver, and the...
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