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Research Blog 4

Posted on November 8, 2011 by | Leave a comment

So far the annotated bibliography was the toughest, it took me quite some time to find some relevant articles about my topic and it was quite a lot of writing. I’m pretty sure it’s nothing compared to the writing of the first draft. I haven’t written many research papers before so I don’t really have a lot of strategies. I do know that if I want my draft to be good, I need to find some more sources which are focused on my topic. It was kinda hard to find some very specific sources, most of the sources were very broad. I would like to know where I could find some more specific sources.

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Metadata and Tagging

Posted on October 12, 2011 by | 1 comment

The three readings assigned were all surprisingly interesting and yet informative. In chapter 4 of Research Strategies the author Badke explained metadata and it’s capability to retrieve information you need at the moment you want. His detailed explanation on “controlled vocabularies” helped me become a better information retriever. The passage Folksonomy: A Game of High-tech (and High-stakes) Tag has taught me the concept of tagging is a growing fast like the next big thing. Many companies see the potential it has in business, i.e. “Yahoo! is already surfing the Folksonomy wave thanks to two critical 2005 purchases of Flickr and del.icio.us.”  The final article written by Horatia Harrod talks about the success of Flickr, the world’s leading photo-sharing site, and how it came to be. The three articles are tied together by the string called metadata. Each reading, in their own way, explain and showed how metadata works.

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Notes from today, and reading/blogging assignments for Wednesday, October 12

Posted on October 5, 2011 by | 2 comments

Thanks for a robust and animated discussion about information ethics today.
Copyright and fair use is in the news today: a copyright case involving a university’s right to stream videos on its website was recently thrown out of court in California; read more here. I encourage you all to finish watching the videos we started to view in class and explore Creative Commons and the Digital Copyright slider. Links to the videos are in the slides.

For Wednesday, October 12, please read the following chapter from Badke and two articles:

Badke, chapter 4 (there is still time to obtain your own copy; if you do not yet have a copy of the required textbook for this class and cannot find it in a convenient bookstore, you can download the e-book for less than $10 here, or use the library’s copy on reserve; the call number is Z710 .B23 2008.)

Dye, J. (2006). Folksonomy: A game of high-tech (and high-stakes) tag. EContent, 29(3), 38-43.

Harrod, H. (2009, March 28). It’s the playground of narcissistic teenagers and amateur photographers, but 3 billion images (and counting) on flickr could be the greatest social document of the century. The Sunday Telegraph, pp.22.

Your blogging assignment is one reading response blog post and one comment on a classmate’s blog post.

Enjoy the long weekend! ~Prof. Leonard

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Copyrights Plagiarism and Fair Use

Posted on October 5, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The assigned readings on fair use and plagiarism were long and boring or maybe it was because I read it after watching the videos. I find the videos very informative and yet entertaining.  The first video had me really thinking about how technology changed laws over the time in order to complement with technological advancements. In the video, Larry Lessig brought really good points on copyrights. He explained that copyright laws are restricting creativity and it can be prevented to benefit both sides. The second video was not only amusing but it was informative as well. While I was enjoying the video I learned many facts. I had no idea that copyrights last 70 years or 100 years if it is under a company.

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Assignment 7

Posted on October 4, 2011 by | 2 comments

The readings and the videos was very informative but I liked the second video better. It was fun and a lot easier to understand compare to the video “The Law is Strangling Creativity”. Copyright is becoming something huge as time goes by, as it was mentioned in the video, before the copyright owner had the rights for only 14 years, then it was increases and now the copyright owner has the rights for like forever. Before it was not such a big thing as it is now that’s because before the copyright owner did not make as much money as they are making now. I do agree with the fair use, movies like the “A Fair(y) Use Tale!” should have legal protection as it’s creative and it’s using only part of the movies and it’s showing a whole different thing compare to the original movies .

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Notes from today, and reading/viewing/blogging for Wednesday, October 5

Posted on October 3, 2011 by | Leave a comment

I hope our privacy discussion got you thinking about your relationship to all of the information “out there” that is about you, and what rights you have to controlling that personal or private information. I found an interesting New York Times article about privacy on college campuses in the wake of the 2008 Virginia Tech shooting: “After Campus Shootings, U.S. to Ease Privacy Rules.”

On Wednesday, we’ll be discussing ethics in information and media, including copyright and fair use, open access, and plagiarism. For Wednesday, please read the following 2 articles:

Isserman, “Plagiarism: a lie of the mind.” Chronicle of Higher Education, 49(34), B12.

Center for Social Media. 2008. The code of best practices in fair use for media literacy education. “Code” and “Principles” sections only.

and watch these videos:

Lawrence L. 2007. “The Law is Strangling Creativity”

Faden, E. 2007. “A Fair(y) Use Tale.”

Your blogging homework is one reading response blog post; one comment on another’s post. Please make the blog post a substantial reflection on the readings and viewing; the comment should be shorter, but try to make it relevant and pithy. Not simply “I agree with your point!”

Slides from today are available here.

~Prof. Leonard

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Notes for Monday, September 12

Posted on September 7, 2011 by | Leave a comment

For Monday, September 12, please read Pavlik pp, 1-7 (distributed in class). Also read Harrington and Meade pp. 6-9 (the Executive Summary, parts 1.1 through 1.10) and view two short videos: Blogs in Plain English and  Wikis in Plain English. Your writing assignment is one 100-word reading (or viewing) response blog post.

Remember that the OpenLab is on the open web for anyone to see, and you do not need to log in to read the latest blog posts. You will need to log in to post your own blog posts, of course.

We are a day behind the printed syllabus I distributed on the first day of class. When I get word about how the college plans to make up Monday classes that were canceled, I’ll update the syllabus and make a PDF available to download here.

I’ll get in touch with the OpenLab tech support folks and keep you updated. Do not hesitate to get in touch, either by email or by leaving a comment here, if you have questions about course readings, blogging assignments, etc.

~Prof. Leonard

 

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