Impact of Digital Media SHUCDT notes

from abstract: "...The ability of computers to combine text, images, and sounds together into remixed messages from original material and cultural artifacts creates a new type of literacy. Remixed messages and Internet shorthand are forms of expression that are based on a visual or “gestalt” understanding of information."
Content creation is the killer app on the Internet she says. I know what she means - people have a new capacity, but this is a very simplistic, technology focussed perspective. I think the 'killer' word will fade very quickly as such apps are going to become very everyday and common place very quickly. She's talking about 'remix' or mashing of content. Now that is slightly more interesting for us, because it's related to post modernism and changing outlooks of what contemporary culture means.
The computer is a great equaliser and educators need to bridge the divide between generations and young people still need adult guides.
Some back chat (I've removed the names):
Q: Any thoughts on the sticky issue of IP, copyright?
: Q: Who owns the IP of a remix?
: there will be a radical change in our ideas of rights.
: Can I submit my homework as a remix?
: Youtube has started to make contracts w/ media companies
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: Q: But more than copyright in the negative sense, what about the value and courtesy of providing attribution, e.g. a la creative commons?
: How do you define plagarism in the age of remix?
: Distributed data right management
: plagiarism is a slightly old school concept
: There is an electric moment when someone attributes your work
: maybe a new word?
: linktribution
: open source attribution - does that assume we all have the same value system?
: How can people learn to remix?
: isn't homework always a part of remixing? I think a better emphasis is on attribution
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: linktribute... the more i look at it the more i like it

So if you hear people talking about linktribution... it was invented here.