http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/ 0011398 Wed, 30 Jun 2004 01:30:01 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2004. Arts http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/archive/17.html Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:27:42 GMT Final Paper - research proposal The relationship between fans and companies Copyrights and fan appropriation through the years Introduction The purpose of this paper is to form an introduction to an extensive research on the subject of fan culture. The emphasis of that research will be on the way the appropriating of the cultural material of television shows and movies in fan fiction and fan art relates to the way companies try to restrain this. The main question of this study would be: What is the relationship between fan appropriation and the companies that the own... (more) http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/comments?id=17 http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/archive/16.html Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:25:32 GMT User’s Rights Are people still unaware of their online rights? For a long time, fans have been unaware of their rights concerning the constraints companies wanted to impose on their online freedom of speech. Also, most discussions of intellectual property in cyberspace have been occupied with the corporate side of things, as described in the previous chapter. The public interest was mostly ignored.[1] Big corporations shutting down small fan sites is routine practice, but not a single case involving fan fiction has ever reached the courts. No lawyer has offered an accused fan site owner... (more) http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/comments?id=16 http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/archive/15.html Mon, 07 Jun 2004 19:55:24 GMT J. Lasica ‘Blogs and journalism need each other’ Question Why do mainstream journalists have so many objections to weblogs? Answer In his article Lasica talks about the relationship between traditional journalism and forms of journalism on weblogs and how this relationship is a symbiotic one. Blogging brings many benefits to journalism, for example in expanding the boundaries and in the providing new angles and insight. Still, many journalists are suspicious of the new medium. Because of notions of ‘fairness, accuracy and truth’, so they say. I think it has more to do with their own... (more) http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/comments?id=15 http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/archive/14.html Mon, 31 May 2004 19:28:48 GMT A. Tybout and G. Carpenter ‘Creating and managing brands’ Question Tybout and Carpenter talk about three different kinds of brands. What ways will these benefit from the Internet? Answer The first type of brand is the functional brand, which focuses on resources, a product and its superior qualities or the place and price of a product. Advertising for such a product should emphasis its superiority, but this is not the basis of functional brands. Instead, aspects like improving the performance and adding new functions in one product are. Especially the last element is important in out... (more) http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/comments?id=14 http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/archive/13.html Fri, 28 May 2004 09:05:33 GMT Final Research Outline for Participatory Culture Topic My topic has changed slightly since my last post on the subject. I was planning on comparing an official and unofficial movie site according to the element of participation. The problem with this approach was that it was difficult to choose from the enormous amount of fan sites that accompany an official site. How would I know what sites to pick and how could I possibly make sure that the ones I chose would be an accurate reflection of others? Therefore, I decided to focus on one aspect that is part of the official/fan relation: the... (more) http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/comments?id=13 http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/archive/12.html Mon, 24 May 2004 19:23:13 GMT C. Shirky ‘What is P2P… And what isn’t? Question Why is P2P so important for autonomous online operating, socially speaking? Answer First of all, Clay Shirky describes P2P as characterised by a lack of centralisation. The nodes, the connecting points of the networks, do not require a central server to operate. Individuals at the edges of the Internet can operate autonomously. Shirky focuses on the technical aspects and states that one of the reasons the P2P is so important, is that by using P2P computing environments, unused hard disk space and computer memory can pooled together.... (more) http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/comments?id=12 http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/archive/11.html Mon, 17 May 2004 15:31:38 GMT Yochai Benkler ‘From consumers to users: shifting the deeper structures of regulation toward sustainable commons and user access’ Question Yochai Benkler speaks of the way a digitally networked environment should be able to turn consumers into users and how regulations and organisations will influence this process. He states that is it important to ensure that enough raw cultural material is available for users to appropriate. This development is already visible online. How does this apply to the film industry? Answer A lot of people are worried that the Internet will have negative... (more) http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/comments?id=11 http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/archive/10.html Thu, 13 May 2004 16:34:59 GMT Uhm, I couldn't find a 'respond' option for the Jenkins assignment on the H2O system, so I'm posting the response here for the time being :) Jenkins speaks of the now more visible media spectatorship and I suppose he means the improved abilities that allow viewers to react to the media content that is presented to them. For example, the Internet communities that focus on a certain television series or movie. People can come together and share their opinions more easily than before the whole Internet revolution, that allows for faster communication. Not that it was impossible for them... (more) http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/comments?id=10 http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/archive/9.html Mon, 10 May 2004 16:53:32 GMT M de Mooij ‘Dimensions of Culture’ Comment M. de Mooij talks about culture specifics in order to find similarities and differences. He starts with describing several dimensions of culture, all of them described as having two extremes. Some of these dimensions are the degree of context in their communication systems, the concepts of time, the relationship to nature, systems of power and collectivism and individualism. He finds great differences amongst several continents, but there are also different interpretations of these concepts within one part of the world. My comment is not as... (more) http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/comments?id=9 http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/archive/8.html Sun, 09 May 2004 12:55:49 GMT (http://ryanbradley.org/) http://rg2walter.blogdrive.com/comments?id=8