Rebecca Tushnet, a law professor at Georgetown, founded the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit focused on fandom. They were established to make a home for people who make non-commercial transformative works who face legal challenges and copyright battles. People often assume that certain expression is illegal when it actually […]
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Panelists: Austin Hall (Daft Hands), Leeroy Jenkins (Leeroy Jenkins), Kyle McDonald (One Red Paperclip), Chuck Testa (Ojai Taxidermy), Christian Lander (mod – Stuff White People Like) For all those who don’t find their way into the drug-filled corridors of mega-fame and mansion-owning fortune, internet celebrity ends up being just another […]
Moderating is Ethan Zuckerman, the director of The MIT Media Lab Center for Civic Media and co-founder of the citizen journalist network Global Voices. He is probably best known for the Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism. There are all kinds of great internet memes out there that we don’t […]
MIT Tech TV Tom Steinberg, founder of MySociety.org, spoke at the Lab today. MySociety is an amazing project based in the UK, which has built a slew of sites that help people report problems with and gain service from their local and national government. As their website says, “Using our […]
I never thought of Fark.com in terms of media critique because the snarky commentary makes fun of the topic of the story as often as the media that produced it, but founder Drew Curtis sees more in the site’s parsing of the news: The initial concept [for his book] was […]