Digital Sharing of Information
Finally my bachelor paper is finish!
It’s a three part paper. First part is an analysis of information on the web. The second part is dealing with traditional copyright, and explains Open Source and Creative Commons as modern ways of licensing. The third part is a history lesson, that tells the story of human media from the first cave paintings to the bittorrent technology.
If you can read danish, it is definitely worth a look.
Download: Digital Sharing of Information.pdf (2009)
Resumé
This bachelor examines the western cultures modern digital information sharing. The first part is an analysis of information sharing on today’s web, which separate the ways, in which information can appear on network based media platforms. This media system analysis is followed by examples from the web. Then follows a mixture of the categories, that appear as hybrids, which are explained, and creates new possibilities for web communication.
The second part examines how the media of our culture is licensed, and how this makes up the foundation of the many copyright conflicts between the users of the internet and the commercial media industry. Drawing on the experience from the information analysis, counterarguments for the maintenance of copyright law are presented. Finally I argue for ‘Open Source’ and ‘Creative Commons’ as modern ways of licensing, which are specially designed for network based media platforms; Examples of media texts that use these are presented.
Information Technology
I have just finished 2 papers in my subsidary course ‘Information Technology’!
The first one is from the course ‘Knowledge and learning in the working life’, that ended with a paper about Etienne Wengers theory of ‘Communities of practice’ (written in danish). It uses the working enviroment at Google, as an example of a company that use communities of practice. Download Communities of Practic.
The second one, is from the course ‘Information analysis and representation’, which in practice means XML/XSLT. This course ended with a paper and a product (both danish), and the subject has building a way to organize animals i XML/DTD, and show the data in browsers with XSLT/HTML/CSS. Download all in archived file.
RIP: A Remix Manifesto
A new movie about the conflict between the users of the internet and the commercial industry has been released. The subject is one of the great showdowns of our time, which I also recently has writing BA in media science about.
Opensourcecinema.org is a film/web project by Brett Gaylor, who is the man behind the new movie ‘RIP: A Remix Manifesto’.
I first read about the movie at Lawence Lessig’s blog, and he is also featured in the film. BTW Lessig’s recent book ‘Remix - making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy’ is now also available under the Creative Commons Attribution
Non-Commercial Licence, so grap it and enjoy the reading :)
RIP: A Remix Manifesto is a beautiful mashup movie, which is being further remixed at the Opensourcecinema.org website. It is not yet released or made avaliable for download for counties outside America, but until then, the movie can be watched in chapters at Opensourcecinema.org.
Spetakl
After some silence at the music department, a new electronic project has arrived. The last few months I been puzzling with software, midi and tunes with Lasse, Martin and Mads, who also played in Cpt. Ahab’s Surfwax. Two projects became one, and its called Spetakl, and until now we’ve made a little tune called ‘røst’, that can be found on the next VUF compilation in April 2009.
We also launched a website on Spetakl.net, and from now on we will post our tracks there.
Hello World (again again etc)
New website again for K-place.org!
Yes I know its not all good, to change everything each time, so sry for the trouble. I changed the site to be powered by Wordpress, it was Joomla before, because it faster to update. So remember to take a look around the site, the categories and the posts, and enjoy the content :)
BTW the list can still be found on k-place.org/list.html
