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Remixing Culture And Why The Art Of The Mash-Up Matters | TechCrunch
The title tells all about the relevance to the course. A thoughtful piece worth the read: Remixing Culture And Why The Art Of The Mash-Up Matters | TechCrunch. jon
News of the Week Top 5; March 18, 2015
1. It’s time for the FBI to prosecute Gamergate trolls (Brianna Wu) 2. Twitter puts trillions of tweets up for sale to data miners: Company plans to make content generated by […]
Data and Goliath
Here is a New York Times book review of ‘Data and Goliath’. I pulled a relevant quote from the article: “In the corporate realm, Mr. Schneier promotes no less than […]
Windows 10 Free* Upgrade to Pirates
The following article describes Microsoft’s announcement that everyone will get a free upgrade to Windows 10, including users with pirated licences. However, upgrades from pirated licences will be deemed “non-genuine”. […]
The Price of Shame (Ted Talk)
Interesting video on the culture of humiliation in case anyone is considering a topic on public shaming, and perhaps would like to link it to how online public shaming, as extra-legal […]
Who Owns Your Data (Hint: It’s Not You)
Cool little animation from Jorge Cham, interviewing Irene Ng and David Reynolds from Hub of All Things: http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1788 Cheers!
17 March Presentation
Hi everyone. Tomorrow, I’ll be doing a presentation on self-censorship as a result of both legal and extra-legal constraints, and its impact on creativity. Here’s a short blog post to […]
Class 9 Slides; March 10, 2015
Here are the slides from Class 9. jon
Class 8 Slides; March 3, 2015
A bit belatedly, here are the slides from our Class 8 contextual survey. jon
News of the Week Top 5; March 11, 2015
1. Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke to pay $7.4m to Marvin Gaye’s family over Blurred Lines: Jury decides Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke copied 1977 hit Got to Give It Up […]