Devon Golde- Blog Entry 2

---In today's digital world, the true meaning of authorship has become more vague than ever. Any original work published to the internet can be copied and altered by the masses at their convenience. So what does this mean for those that have created original works and use the inter-webs as their only means to share them? Well anyone with access to the internet can access millions of pieces of user-created content. Some times people take this content and "remix" it to make their own content to create something new. However they haven't created any actual new content, just reimagined the old. It is hard to say in this situation who the author is of the new work. Is it the one who created the original work, or is it the one who used that for their own agenda? The maker of the new material has created something, but technically hasn't created something brand new, instead using someone else's work for their own. So is this person now the new author or a collaborator? Either way that person will likely take full credit for their new work, even if it's not entirely their own.
---This accessibility to technology like the internet allows for people to have a seemingly limitless amount of content and information whenever they please. People can find almost any information they are looking for just by typing a few words and can find any user-content and see it from anywhere in the world. The internet has most definitely taken any geographical boundaries out of the equation. One can talk to someone just as easily down the street as they can someone three-thousand miles away. And as such, location doesn't seem to be as much of a factor as it used to. Now we can all be in the same place-hearing the same news, the same gossip, the same content- and that place is the internet. Whereas only a few years ago location was a huge factor in who you are, now it seems that we are all just global citizens, people of the internet. We are becoming more of a global culture, as well. Being able to access the same content, to communicate to anywhere in the world, we have ceased to be separate people from separate places. Instead we have become one and the internet has brought us together, made us one. It has changed the way we live, act, and communicate. It has changed not only our culture, but the very foundations of culture itself.