Publish new bookmarks 03/28/2010 (p.m.)

• The Creative Commons and Copyright Protection in the Digital Era: Uses of Creative Commons Licenses

  Tags: no_tag

• Currents - Language as a Blunt Tool of the Digital Age - NYTimes.com

  This is a nice companion piece to the Nicholas Carr article that my presentation was focused on in Week 3 if anyone is interested in looking at the topic more in-depth.

  Tags: language, globalisation, reading, multitasking, internet

  • - By Tiana Stefanic

• The Times: paywalls, porn and iPads | News | TechRadar UK

  How come paying for news available online is not taking off like how iTunes are able to sell music files, even though both formats can be received for free? Will the iPad make the situation worse for paid online news sites, or will it actually help it prosper?

  Tags: digital, publishing, newspapers, TimesOnline, iPad

  • - By Miren Mendoza
  • The first is to produce content that's unique enough to pay for, and the second is to make paying for it as painless as possible.

• Research Online - M. J. McLelland: Australia's proposed internet filtering system : its implications for animation, comic and gaming (ACG) and slash fan communities

  New journal article on Australian internet filter.

  Tags: australia, journals, internet, filter, fandom, fan fic

  • - By Dan O'Reilly-Rowe

  • Abstract

    
    

    This paper investigates the implications of the Australian Government’s proposed Internet filtering system in the light of Australia’s blanket prohibition of ‘child pornography’ (including cartoons, animation, drawings, digitally manipulated photographs, and text) for Australian fan communities of ACG and slash. ACG/slash fan groups in Australia and elsewhere routinely consume, produce and disseminate material containing ‘prohibited content’ (i.e. featuring fictitious ‘under-age’ characters in violent and sexual scenarios). Moreover, a large portion of the fans producing and trading in these images are themselves ‘under age’. Focusing specifically upon the overwhelmingly female fandom surrounding Japanese ‘Boys’ Love’ (BL) manga, the paper argues that legislators have misrecognised the nature and scope of these online communities. It is also argued that the sheer scale of this kind of material, and the fact that it is legal for download and purchase in jurisdictions such as the US and Japan, make attempts to prohibit access to these purely fictional depictions in Australia unworkable.

• What The Trend: Application Directory

  Tags: twitter, social, media, digital, analytic

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