An interesting article about the men and women that labour as online moderators for corporate websites, news media websites, or for companies whose job is to hire moderators to do this on behalf of other sites….
David Sax, Comment Moderator, The Dirtiest Job on the Internet, Business Week, December 1, 2011.
For information and venue, see:
http://media.mcgill.ca/en/cablegate_eventOn 28 November 2010, WikiLeaks and a small number of media partners released thousands of U.S. embassy diplomatic cables in what came to be referred to as ‘Cablegate’. International diplomacy, journalism, and broader society were shaken by this extremely public disclosure of classified cables, which had been sent to the U.S. Department of State by its consulates, embassies, and diplomatic missions around the world. Among numerous other revelations, the cables exposed U.S. government war crimes, government corruption in North Africa, and misdealing within the financial sector, igniting an intense debate on the future of diplomacy and the media.
On the one year anniversary of Cablegate, Media@McGill will be hosting a roundtable panel consisting of contributors to the upcoming book, Beyond WikiLeaks, to highlight the broader implications of the WikiLeaks’ publication of U.S. cables and the challenges it poses for networked journalism, media activism, risk society and freedom of expression.
Panelists: Lisa Lynch (Dept. Journalism, Concordia University), Patrick McCurdy (Dept. of Communication, University of Ottawa), Stefania Milan(The Citizen Lab, University of Toronto), and Arne Hintz (Dept. Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University).
Moderator: Marc Raboy, Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications, McGill University.
Bill C-11 (current pending legislation, Fall 2011)
Copyright Modernization Act
http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&DocId=5144516
The Return of Copyright Reform
http://zone505.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/return-of-copyright-reform/
Dwayne Winseck, The Globe and Mail,ctober 25, 2011, Take Notice of the Slippery Slopes in the Copyright Modernization Act
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/digital-culture/dwayne-winseck/take-notice-of-the-slippery-slopes-in-the-copyright-modernization-act/article2212937/
CAUT on Bill C-11
http://www.speakoutoncopyright.ca/blog/caut-bill-c-11
Elizabeth May and Charlie Angus on Bill C-11, Oct 21 2011
Bill C-32(ca. 2010)
Government of Canada’s Balanced Copyright site:
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/crp-prda.nsf/eng/home
Govt of Canada Copyright Consultations site (2009 consult)
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/008.nsf/eng/home
List of submissions
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/008.nsf/eng/h_00001.html?Open&c=42#itm42
Michael Geist ed, From “Radical Extremism” to “Balanced Copyright”: Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda.
http://www.irwinlaw.com/store/product/666/from–radical-extremism–to–balanced-copyright-
Sam Trosow on Bill C-32
http://samtrosow.ca/content/view/91/2/
UWO library-compilation of resources on library/educator responses to Bill C-32
https://www.lib.uwo.ca/blogs/digitalscholarly/2010/06/educators-and-s.html
Canadian Library Association on Bill C-32
http://www.cla.ca/Content/ContentFolders/NewsReleases/2010/Bill_C-32_CLA_Brief_final.pdf
Geist – Key Issues on Bill C-32
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5316/125/
The Fight for Fair Copyright (Canadian Federation of Students, May 25, 2010)
CBC’s Download Decade series
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/digital-culture/download-decade/ Outside Canada
Brett Gaylor – RIP! A Remix Manifesto
http://ripremix.com/
Appropriation Art – good links to resources. Check out video: Why Copyright? Canadian Voices on Copyright
http://www.appropriationart.ca/action/c32
Laura Murray’s site
http://www.faircopyright.ca/
Meera Nair’s Fair Duty site
http://fairduty.wordpress.com/
Students for Free Culture
http://freeculture.org/
Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/
Illegal Art
http://www.illegal-art.org/
Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture
http://www.free-culture.cc/
Lawrence Lessig’s Remix
http://remix.lessig.org/
Free Expression Policy project
http://www.fepproject.org/issues/copyright.html
Good Copy, Bad Copy – film about CR (Denmark, 2007)
http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/
Copyright, What’s Copyright? from the Media Education Lab, ca. 2009
Creative Commons
A Shared Culture, ca. 2008, by Jesse Dylan, Dir.
Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/
Creative Commons Canada
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Canada
Lessig on Creative Commons, 2010
Mark Zuckerberg: “The Era of Privacy is Over”
Google news on Facebook and privacy:
https://www.google.com/search?aq=f&hl=en&gl=ca&tbm=nws&btnmeta_news_search=1&q=facebook+and+privacy
Some updates from Zone 505:
http://zone505.wordpress.com/category/privacy/
Mediascapes3 on Privacy issues inc. Facebook
http://mediascapes3.wordpress.com/tag/privacy/
Nick Bilton – NY Times – May 12, 2010 – Price of Facebook Privacy? Start Clicking
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/technology/personaltech/13basics.html
And an amazing graphic of navigating your way through Facebook privacy options:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/12/business/facebook-privacy.html?ref=personaltech
Miguel Helft – NY Times – October 18, 2010 – Facebook Acknowledges Privacy Issue With Applications
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/facebook-admits-to-privacy-issue-and-makes-fixes/
Industry Says Africa Fastest Growing Mobile Market, Donna Bryson (AP), The Globe and Mail (Nov 9, 2011):
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/tech-news/industry-says-africa-fastest-growing-mobile-market/article2230412/
Africa is the world’s fastest growing mobile phone market and soon poised to have 735 million people using their phones for everything from transferring money to
tracking animals for wildlife studies, an industry group said Wednesday….
Analysis of a Media Policy Issue (40%) – Final paper due December 7
Choose a specific media policy issue and provide a critical analysis of the issue. This can be a Canadian, U.S., or international case study. It can be a contemporary media policy issue or an issue that has occurred in the past. For ideas on media policy issues, see link here: http://coms225.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/media-policy-issues-ideas-for-the-assignment/
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