AMAZING example of Convergence in Politics

Check this out -- Current TV is going to show the debates tonight with the public's Twitter Tweets on top!

Link

One more reading

Class --

I have added one reading for Monday.  We will be having some group discussions and I will expect everyone to be caught up with the TV chapter and the articles that are on the class website for Monday.

Please add this one: 

MEDIA FUTURE: Al Gore on "TV and the Threat to American Democracy"

Links from the Internet class Sept 11, 08

akaKurdistan

Youtube

Flickr

Wikipedia

Digg

Huffington Post

Institute for Applied Autonomy's SmartMob text message project

Technorati

Anti-Advertising Agency's Ad Art project

Creative Commons

supplemental web video

These videos will supplement our reading about the web. Be sure to watch them as we will discuss them in class and they are fair game for exams.

Tim Berners Lee on the Semantic Web



Tim Wu on why Net Neutrality is an important issue for the government



Danah Boyd on sexual anxiety on Myspace.com

MEDIA intro & ownership links

Media Ownership Links:

http://www.thenation.com/special/bigten.html

http://www.cjr.org/resources/

THEY RULE
artists' collective website where you can look at who is on the boards of major companies and how they are connected

Links from First Class

Hi, Here's a fun one for you all, which will have even greater meaning when you read the chapter called PHOTOSHOP FOR DEMOCRACY with Prof. Aristimuno.
If you can't see it, visit this link:
http://i36.tinypic.com/waqa6u.gif

The links I mentioned in class:
www.muxtape.com [still being fixed, but check it in a couple days]

www.remixamerica.org
(If anyone decides to remix, please post your link in the comments)

Some that the class mentioned:
www.stickam.com
www.flickr.com
www.secondlife.com

I know there were several others mentioned; please post them in the comments, along with any you want to add (including your personal blogs if you'd like to share them). Again, we were brainstorming websites and web applications that you know about or use that allow you to connect with other people, comment on or edit content/information, create content or share information, or share files/links.

Welcome to Convergence, Fall 2008!

Please check this blog regularly for links and updates. Feel free to comment when inspired.