berry1.pdf (Oggetto application/pdf) I WANT MY GEEK TV! The Cast of Global Frequency Many of us who study fan cultures have marveled at how quickly fan communities mobilize around new television series. Fan websites such as Ain’t It Cool News get early information about new series, especially those which are prone to develop cult followings. Many fans start registering domain names and forming web circles based on the first news of a fan-friendly series. And producers are becoming more adept at tapping into fan networks from the get-go. Pushing this trend to its logical extreme, an active, committed fandom has now emerged around an unaired pilot. The show created industry buzz when the pilot was being developed; the WB Network grabbed the rights to what many thought was a really hot property, considered it for Fall 2004, before announcing it would hit the air in Spring 2005. Already we can see a bunch of ways that the new media landscape is altering how traditional broadcasting operates. BBC Director Mark Thompson Of course not! 1. 2.
Technology Review: Taking Media in Our Own Hands The hazy images of Kyle Cassidys Toy Soldiers (1996) evoke faint childhood memories. This short film expresses the hopes and anxieties of a small boy as he awaits the next news from his father who is serving in Vietnam. Adult concerns shape his everyday rituals as he plays in the backyard with his green plastic army guys and reflects on the fate of those who have been run over by the lawnmower, as he watches the flickering television newscast with his mother, and as he awaits the next letter. Cassidy made the critically acclaimed film with his Pixelvision 2000 camera, which has a plastic case and plastic lens, runs on six AA batteries, and records its images on a regular audiocassette tape. The Pixelvision camera has a fixed focus lens which, like a pinhole camera, theoretically has absolute focus from zero to infinity, but in practice, does best when what is being filmed remains a few feet from the camera.
Solar Cinema Homepage Untitled Document We would like to encourage footage within the following themes (these are just suggestions though): CELEBRATION, the positive side of life on earth; CAUTION, "all is not right with the world"; and ACTION, demonstrating solutions and answers. The audio-visual editing and sampling techniques pioneered by Coldcut and Hexstatic, where sound components on film are linked to their video sources, will be used to draw out key parts of the overall film message Film Structure - The Three Phases We don’t want to be too prescriptive about what is filmed. We would like you to focus on the social, economic and environmental sustainability of YOUR world as YOU see it. The editorial team will be guided in their compilation and shaping of the final film by themes that emerge from contributed footage. Phase 1 - CELEBRATION: NOW! Suggestions for footage: Phase 2 - CAUTION: All is not right with the world. Film things that upset, shock or depress you. Phase 3 - ACTION: We have the solutions. Themes Style & Technique
Technology Review: The People Own Ideas! We entered the youth camp that morning by passing down a long, white gravel road and under a wooden gate. Spread to one side, and for as far as you could see, were rows and rows of tents. In front were scores of showers, with hundreds of kids in swimsuits milling about, waiting to rinse. It felt like a refugee camp. In a sense, it was. More than a hundred thousand had descended upon Porto Alegre, Brazil, to attend the World Social Forum, a conference intended to offer a progressive alternative to the much smaller, and much more famous, World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, Switzerland (see “Letter from Davos,” April 2005). Just past the showers was a sprawling collection of wooden huts, connected by a canvas spread across their roofs. The room was being prepared for what seemed like a disco. In another room, the yellow light filtering through the canvas roof bathed another 50 machines. Inside the room, a group of five or six Brazilians was waiting there to meet us.
A video aperto | Technology Review Italia di David Talbot | Capo corrispondente di «Technology Review», edizione americana. Nel 2005, Michael Dale e Abram Stern, due studenti di dottorato del corso di arte dei media digitali presso l’Università della California a Santa Cruz, decisero che sarebbe stato divertente costruire dei “blob” televisivi con i discorsi pronunciati al Congresso americano. Il loro era un obiettivo artistico: Stern, per esempio, aveva in mente di editare un intervento sul parterre del Senato rimuovendo tutte le parole fuorché i pronomi personali. Si trattava più o meno di seguire una tradizione di videocommento satirico basata sul remix dei discorsi ascoltati durante la convention repubblicana del 2004 in modo da riportare solo le numerose occorrenze dei termini “terrorismo” o “11 settembre” pronunciati da George e Laura Bush, Dick Cheney, Rudy Giuliani e altri. Benvenga un po’ di follia Wikivideo sulle orme di Wikipedia
Students for Free Culture » Blog » Net Neutrality Demand better coverage of Net Neutrality Numerous stakeholders, watchdogs, and industry analysts have already commented on yesterday’s public disagreement between Comcast and Level 3 Communications. Let the FCC Hear Your Voice on Student-Led Innovation On the White House blog Tom Kalil and Aneesh Chopra are drawing attention to the role that students have in Your voice needed at FCC "net neutrality" workshop next week! ARPAnet Interface message processor (IMP), BBN, 1967 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering adopting national rules to protect Student Voices in the P2P Provisions of the 2008 HEOA As you undoubtedly know, college campuses are, in many ways, ground zero for the battles being waged for the future Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For Free Culture… As you undoubtedly know, President Obama has led an unprecedented era of openness in American governance, and although the record Action Alert: Stop Copyright Filtering in Broadband Stimulus Well, crap, guys.
The Wind Done Gone The Wind Done Gone (2001) is the first novel written by Alice Randall. It was a bestselling historical novel that reinterprets the famous American novel Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell. Plot summary[edit] The plot of Gone with the Wind revolves around a pampered Southern woman named Scarlett O'Hara, who lives through the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The Wind Done Gone is the same story, but told from the viewpoint of Cynara, a mulatto slave on Scarlett's plantation and the daughter of Scarlett's father and Mammy; the title is an African American Vernacular English sentence that might be rendered "The Wind Has Gone" in Standard American English. Cynara's name comes from the Ernest Dowson poem Non sum qualís eram bonae sub regno Cynarae, a line from which ("I have forgot much, Cynara! Sold from the O'Haras, Cynara eventually makes her way back to Atlanta and becomes the mistress of a white businessman. Characters[edit] Legal controversy[edit] References[edit]
What does a free culture look like? - FreeCulture.org Wiki A free culture is one where critics don't just vote thumbs-up or thumbs-down on a movie but seriously discuss how a movie could be improved -- and then someone reads their critique and goes out and does it. [1] [2] A free culture is one where being a cover band doesn't lose you any street cred compared to doing your own music from scratch -- and where it starts to become hard to tell the difference. [3] A free culture is one where bad old TV series and movies turn into brilliant remakes and fan fiction on a regular basis -- and bad remakes and fan fiction themselves generate brilliant ones after a few years. A free culture is one where making a tribute to your favorite book or speculating on a logical continuation of an existing book is just as legal as mocking and satirizing a bad book you don't like. [4] A free culture is one where anyone who wants to can try to build a better mousetrap -- and the world beats a network of paths connecting everyone's front door.
Free culture movement The movement objects to overly-restrictive copyright laws. Many members of the movement argue that such laws hinder creativity. They call this system "permission culture. Creative Commons is an organization started by Lawrence Lessig which provides licenses that permit sharing under various conditions, and also offers an online search of various Creative Commons-licensed works. The free culture movement, with its ethos of free exchange of ideas, is aligned with the free software movement. Background[edit] In 1998, the United States Congress passed the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act which President Clinton signed into law. In 1999, Lessig challenged the Bono Act, taking the case to the US Supreme Court. In 2001, Lessig initiated Creative Commons, an alternative “some rights reserved” licensing system to the default “all rights reserved” copyright system. Organizations[edit] The organization commonly associated with free culture is Creative Commons (CC), founded by Lawrence Lessig.
Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism by Richard Stallman Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. When the goal is a matter of principle, we call that idealism. My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better. That's the basic reason why the GNU General Public License is written the way it is—as a copyleft. Not everyone who uses the GNU GPL has this goal. “Sometimes I work on free software, and sometimes I work on proprietary software—but when I work on proprietary software, I expect to get paid.” If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough—you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal. Consider GNU C++.