Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Politics of Piracy (Kevin Gorman and Katie Gilmore)/Timeline/2

Getting Started with PoP and Wikipedia

Creation

• Create your Wikipedia account. If you need help, you can watch the tutorial. If you so wish, feel free to go ahead and make your user page and add info boxes. You can find helpful information at the bottom of this page or in the "Resources" tab. (We'll go over this more in depth at the next class)
• Add your username to the class list under Students by selecting the edit tab on the right.

Reading

Your homework this week is to read:

• Lessig, Lawrence Chapter 2 (pages 31-48). Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. 2004. Available in print and for free online in a variety of formats.
• Spacecoyote, “my thoughts on art theft”, deviantART journal entry (read her comment in the linked thread as well)

Then post your response by editing the discussion part of this page. You can edit the discussion section by clicking in the top left corner on "Discussion" near "Project page" and then editing the page using the link in the top right corner.

Remember

• You sign your comment with ~~~~ (4 tildes) and
• to indent to indicate a response type some ":" (colons).

If you have trouble with anything don't worry, just send us an email.

Questions

Answer on this page's discussion tab one of the following questions or respond to another student's comment. (I realize we didn't cover in detail how to post on Wikipedia, so if you're still unsure how to go about it then just write up a response and we'll help you post it in class as a demo)

• In the way that Lessig states that the Kodak’s biggest breakthrough “was not economic. It was social.” (33) Are currently contested technologies great implications economic or social?
• In photography’s history “Freedom was the default.” (34) With the advent of digital rights permission is the default. Is there a reason to choose either freedom or permission initially (with or without the flexibility to change later)?
• Lessig describes the new languages that we are brought up with, and simultaneously shining light on the possibility, “the crucial point: it could be both read write.” (37) Do we have a read-write culture around the picked-on old format: text?
• Of all the innovation and advantages to new media such as blogs and collaborative software, can you foresee any malevolent uses and should they be regulated rather than receiving free passes for being novel inventions?

Reminders

• To answer adequately your responses should be about a paragraph in length.
• Two students each week will have their comments selected as a featured comment and receive a small amount of extra credit.

I think that the implications are more social than economic. Current technology such as new smart phones allow us to be more virtually integrated. Not only can we use facebook at home, we can use facebook via smart phones outside the home. Smart phones allow us to see what is happening in the world faster but it also allows the world to see what we do quicker too. Via smart phones, we can capture images and share them instantaneously. In addition, technology has become cheaper and easier to use such that it is more accessible for everyone and because it is more accessible, our virtual social network grows.

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