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In 2007 Henry Jenkins wrote a blog piece titled, Nine Propositions Towards a Cultural Theory of YouTube, where he talked about the uses and possibilities of YouTube and how it is changing online interactivity. He describes it as a “meeting … Continue reading →

In Daryl Paranada’s excerpt from his book Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, Paranada talks about  the increasing number of gamers around the world, and the large amounts of time spent … Continue reading →

Danah Boyd is the author of the article Why Youth (Heart) Socal Network Sites: The Role of the Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life. In the article she discusses why young people in particular seem to be infatuated with social … Continue reading →

Andrew Keen is the author of Digital Vertigo: How Today’s Online Social Revolution is Dividing, Diminishing and Disorienting Us, a book where like the title, he talks about how online social networks are breaking up society, which today is not … Continue reading →

Remix is a book written by Lawrence Leesig which discusses the effects of the internet. He writes about how the copyright laws of today seem outdated and unfit to deal with the way the internet changes culture and creativity. He … Continue reading →

Reading Cyberbultures discusses the many ways internet culture mirrors life outside the digital world. It covers topics from globalization to race and gender and also the gap between those who have access to the digital world known as the digital … Continue reading →

I chose to visit the blog of Aaron Weiss which features movie and film reviews. The home screen of the blog features movies and films in order of how recenlty they were released, although there are still a number of … Continue reading →