Monthly Archives: September 2012

In Danah Boyd’s article Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life, she discusses MySpace and its effects on youth between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years of age. Danah Boyd is … Continue reading →

In Andrew Keen’s Digital Vertigo (Introduction and Chapter 1), Keen understands and accepts the benefits of technological novelty before cautioning us of the dangers.  Andrew Keen is a British-American entrepreneur  writer, broadcaster and public speaker. He is an acclaimed speaker on … Continue reading →

In Part One of Lawrence Lessig’s Remix, he discusses two main key concepts: “Read/Only” culture (RO) and “Read/Write” culture (RW). RO culture is a less practiced in performance and more comfortable with simple consumption. Lessig connects this to the consumer, to … Continue reading →

“Reading” Cybercultures comes from Pramod K. Nayar’s book, An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures. Nayar begins with defining cyberculture to be the electronic environment where various technologies and media forms coverage; and cyberspace to be the worlds and domains … Continue reading →

Forget about looking on youtube for trailers or waiting until you go to the theaters to watch trailers about up and coming films, The Movie Blog (themovieblog.com) has it all for you, both current and up and coming. Not only … Continue reading →