Blog #6

All three authors, Lessig, Weinberger, and Jenkins discussed various topics all surrounding the greater issue of the digital media culture.

Lessig, the author of Remix, discusses a lot of issues surrounding copyright and piracy. The convergence and participatory culture that we have today is making copyright a more blurry topic becuase media users are more willing to share work, and are wanted to remix other peoples work. Creative people are looking for new outlets; mashups have become the new outlet. Lessig brings up several questions that question copyright laws and there productivity in the sharing economy.

Weinberger, author of Everything is Miscellaneous discusses web 2.0 and the orders of the internet, first, second, and third. How disorder functions online, and ways to organize the miscellaneous mess on the web.

Jenkins, author of Convergence Culture, hits on some of the same topics as Lessig but mainly focuses on the convergence culture. How, we, as internet users are participating in the online culture through web 2.0, remixes, blogs, and spoiling groups.

Key terms: convergence culture, participatory culture, web 2.0, order of orders, collective intelligence, sharing/commercial/hybrid economies, remix, collective intelligence, metadata, and mash-ups.

Connections: I think that all three of the books touch on participatory culture. How users have used old technology to create new technology; adding to pre-existing ideas. I think that all issues surrounding technology can relate to the idea of the participatory culture. In order to survive there needs to be participants to add on to and make better resources for everyone. Weinberger touches on tags, sites like digg, delicious and flickr asks users to tag miscellaneous information and make those tags more accessible for future users. For users to build upon. Jenkins is all about participatory culture. He brings in so many real world examples and discusses how people are engaging in spoiling. Spoilers have created an online community where enthusiasts can come and engage to unravel tv show secrets. They are engaging and participating in this community. Lessig also hits a lot on participatory culture. He brings up remixes and people who are engaging in taking others work and building upon, participating in each others works.

Final Project: In order to complete the final project we are going to need to use elements of all of the authors. I think we are especially going to need to think about how viewers will engage, participate, and understand the information that we are putting forth. Properly organizing will be a major part of the project. We will also be building upon technologies of the past.