January 2009 Archives

Copyright Confusion Conquered

This past week, I was lucky enough to get to attend a Web seminar entitled "Yes, You Can Use Copyrighted Materials! Conquering Copyright Confusion" with Renee Hobbs, whose work to add a media literacy exemption to the DMCA has been profiled in Henry Jenkins' blog before. The Web seminar essentially covered the NCTE Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Media Literacy Education. In doing so, it taught me some things that I'd never known before.

Making Smart Cool Again

I warn you: This blogpost is about politics. And it is not unbiased.

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, blogs toward... j/k, everyone.

I've been thinking all through the holidays about Howard Rheingold's differentiation between a "public" and an "audience," as he describes in this chunk I lifted wholesale from his page on blogging for participatory media literacy: