Montes Carrasquillo
Question #2 – Remix and Open Source Culture – What impact has digital technology had on issues of authorship, access to technology and means of cultural production?
Digital technology has had a big impact on authorship when one thinks of the internet. Digital technology has changed the way communication takes place between people and allows for reproduction of many things that are now made copy ready for the consumer. Because the consumer changes the original copy into a different meaning when viewed or heard or felt the consumer then clams owner ship of that new piece. Most artist work comes with license agreement which must be followed or obeyed such as creative commons. The argument over ownership as a history that goes back to laws that were made for ownership over the air waves that are used to broadcast radio signals to an audience. Today people want to be seen and heard so they blog and chat and images are sent to one another a lot of times over a long distances, say Philadelphia to somewhere in the West Coast. The more access a person has to digital technology the more that person will produce copies and originals and they will have a vast collection of things that make up their digital world that can reach most parts of the original world. Hollywood as felt a big impact by the internet and always is looking for new ways to integrate new ideas to keep their audience in the multiplexes. Video tape has had a big impact on film by biting into their audience, the internet has television audience down similar to the way television has took newspapers audience. Blogs and you tube are a new net being cast by different group that end in different headline news putting the viewer at a more authorship position when it comes to what they see
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