The closing ROFLcon keynote. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to defend These Internets from those that would take away its freedoms. On the heels of the SOPA/PIPA debacle, we’ve assembled this final boss panel to scheme and plan for the next time some baddies come around the […]
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Christian Sandvig introduces our panelists: Matt Harding (Where The Hell Is Matt), who became famous in that dark time before streaming video sites. Judson Laipply (The Evolution of Dance, a 2006 YouTube performance with 70 million views in the first 8 months), Liam Sullivan (Liam Show / “Shoes”, which received […]
Panelists: Dan Sinker (Mozilla / @MayorEmanuel), Biella Coleman (McGill University), Latoya Peterson (Racialicious), Molly Sauter @oddletters (mod – Comparative Media Studies). This post written with Erhardt Graef. Molly Sauter introduces the panel: How do regular memes and politics collide? There’s the political world, the IRL world, and the internet world […]
Panelists: R. Stevens (Diesel Sweeties), Sam Brown (Explodingdog)Growing from the backwaters of nerdy scribblers uploading their doings onto the web, webcomics have grown into vast, mighty engines of culture online in the past decade plus. Whether it’s the firm geekery of xkcd or the more obscure dabblings of Achewood – […]
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 […]