User talk:Lesldock

In the way that Lessig states that the Kodak’s biggest breakthrough “was not economic. It was social.” (33) Are currently contested technologies great implications economic or social?

I think this question ties in to the discussion of read-write culture as well. The reason the Kodak was a social breakthrough was because it gave everyday people the chance to record (write) the experiences they had in their lives. Now scenes from personal lives, the violence in inter-city neighborhoods, the poor, the broken, could be recorded as photographs. And this gave photographers a chance to bring the issues they faced in their own lives to the attention of those who had never before confronted such scenes. It ended the domination of the elite in photography. In the same sense, we now live in a culture that is defined by pop music that is frequently degrading or not substantial. The voices of the rest of us are drowned out unless we can use the materials we have to create our own music and express ourselves in ways that connect us to the rest of the world. In this sense, something like the internet can empower us to rewrite modern culture.

Lesldock (talk) 16:33, 6 February 2012 (UTC)lesldock

Midterm

I would like to update the page "Music Law" so that it has a section explaining the effects that illegal downloads have had on the music industry. My parents have always harassed me about piracy saying that it's essentially stealing from the little guys, and I would like to research actual statistics about who is really being hurt, if anyone. I am not sure this page is the best one to create such a section for, because it seems like it would fit on several pages. If you think there is a better one, I'm definitely open to switching pages for the topic. Lesldock (talk) 15:21, 6 March 2012 (UTC)lesldock