2.21 Notes --- SEMESTER HALFWAY POINT

Read Lessig, Free Culture 7-47

Write a blog entry responding to Lessig in some way. If you choose the stock option, your blog entry can either link to some sort of multi-modal digital text (art, video, audio, multimedia) that remixes or pirates prior work in an interesting way (if you want to show off some of your DTC design chops, this is your chance), or else link to some text that you would argue is too derivative of the work of others in a way that merits discussion. (For the second option, choose something that's open to debate rather than something that's simple, obvious plagiarism: in other words, Shakespeare ripping off Chaucer is more interesting to talk about than Kaavya Viswanathan, Blair Hornstine, or Jayson Blair.) Use quotations from the Lessig reading to help you talk about why you think it's interesting, cool, or problematic.


"The act of reflection, metacognition -- promotes knowledge transfer. If you want knowledge to stick to continue working with those concepts, you must think about thinking." ~Edwards

"The machine is us/ing us" The video is dated now (6 years) 

Server farms? Crawlers/spiders? archive sites... archive.org, they start in 1996 current form of the internet began, Web 2.0

Part 2 of the semester will go over OWNING INFORMATION
So stoked for this.
Edwards is the chair of a caucus on intellectual property? Go to office hours!!

*cryptomnesia

By 9 pm tonight: mid semester reflecting:

Write, either on paper or on your computer, a reflection on your progress so far in the course; you'll email this to me NLT 9 pm tonight, and I'll use it to help me assess your midterm projects. Your reflection should answer the following questions:

• Assume that your midterm project is an instance of some of the best work you've done. Describe to me what you think are its best features.
• Assume that your midterm project requires some revision. Describe to me what I could have done or taught to help you improve the quality of your project.
• Predict what grade you think I will assign to the project, and why.
• Agree or disagree with the grade you think I will assign to the project, and give reasons based on the wording of the assignment and the course concepts described in the syllabus.
• Look over the syllabus and identify the readings and concepts you are most interested in investigating, and why.