MDSB25H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Shopify, Commodification, North American Free Trade Agreement
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Review of previous weeks: schools of thought, hori ontal & (ertical integration, media landscape. It"s bad for us because the provisions in the new rules are about intellectual property. Economy: goods / product and services, intellectual property (cid:840)movies, shopify, etc. (cid:841) Your intellectual property will be available to the public domain 70 years after your death? (cid:840)in us(cid:841) Sharing info with friends (cid:840)people you know(cid:841), users as (cid:873)producers(cid:874) Sharing as a social activity, conscious selection of friends (cid:840)users" interest(cid:841) Sociality as informal space, private (cid:840)social capital(cid:841: station between connectedness and connectivity (cid:840)expansive definitions of sharing(cid:841) Sharing info with unknown and third parties, users as (cid:873)customers(cid:874) Sharing as algorithmic activity to be engineered and steered (cid:840)owners" interest(cid:841) Sociality as commercial space connectivity as a resource (cid:840)economic capital(cid:841) Learning goals for this class: discuss (cid:840)critical(cid:841) reading skills by dissecting the structure & methodology of simmons" article. 2: analy e how the process of commodification.
