MMEDIA 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: User-Generated Content, Cyberculture, Fake News
24 Nov 2017
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Can inhibit democratic participation (eg. hate speech in comments) Fuchs: online culture is not inherently democratic, notions of participatory/fan culture is limited in its assessment of power dynamics. Internet = commercial platform, ways we participate are predetermined by corporations. Appropriation = use of borrowed elements in the creation of a work. Remix = broader term that includes literary, visual, performing arts. Yes - but she wasn"t selling it, still amateur. Artists challenge notion that any meaning ascribed to an object is permanent. Technology makes appropriating easier and more visible - easy to reinterpret. Collection of rights that grant creators of a . Usually expires 50-100 years after death of creator. Form of intellectual property applied to certain creative works. Fair use: exception which permits limited, unlicensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material without acquiring permission. Parody is not on the list, but it has repeatedly been recognized.
