What game design opportunities do we create when we extend massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) to cell phones?
Podcast: Media in Transition 5: “Summary Perspectives”
Suzanne de Castell, Fred Turner, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Jose van Dijck, and Nick Montfort wrap up Media in Transition 5.
Podcast: Media in Transition 5: “Reproduction, Mimicry, Critique and Distribution Systems in Visual Art”
What are the tradeoffs artists make between creating artificial scarcity to increase a work’s unique value and increasing its visibility through broader reproduction? How are the needs of those who teach and write on video going to be met in the face of hyper-commodification?
Podcast: Sharon Mazer, “What’s Live Got To Do With It?”
Sharon Mazer looked at the ways that audience “performances” may be seen to challenge the live-ness of the onstage action in the Road to Wrestlemania 23
Podcast: Media in Transition 5: “Learning through Remixing”
Can young people also learn how culture works by sampling and remixing the materials of their culture?
Podcast: Media in Transition 5: “Copyright, Fair Use and the Cultural Commons”
How has the American tradition of intellectual property law understood the relationship between originality and tradition?
Podcast: Media in Transition 5: “Collaboration and Collective Intelligence”
“Collective Intelligence” and “the wisdom of crowds” have become central buzz phrases in recent discussions of networked culture. But what do they really mean? What do we know about the new forms of collaboration that is emerging as people work together across geographic distances online?
