I had never heard of Lonelygirl before taking this class. I even asked my daughter about it and she was clueless. She mainly focuses on MySpace. If I hadn’t know any better, I would have believed this was a real teenager doing teenage things. The one thing that did strike me as being a little strange was that her father allowed her to be in the room with a young man…with the doors closed. The issues surrounding the reality of this show doesn’t really surprise me. Why would they hide the facts? Maybe to create more interest in the show. Also, how do we know a lot of the new shows that we watch on television are real. For example Flavor Flav’s show. Who would date, let alone kiss him unless they knew they were getting some kind of incentive to do so? The television has been bombarded with these types of shows and though I’m not a big fan of them, I do check them out every now and then for the laughs — or the drama. I’m always questioning their authenticity, because certain things that happen in these shows just don’t make sense. I’ve even heard that some of the game shows are rigged in certain ways. Petisa
Why Napster Matters September 27, 2007
In the article “Why Napster Matters to writing: Filesharing as a new ethic of digital delivery. DeVoss and Porter explain why they feel that teachers of writing need to change their thinking about the way writing and plagarism can be incorporated, in new ways, into technology.Their belief is that with the right guidelines of the Fiar Use Act and others, students will benefit from being able to use others’ works in their favor. This in turn will lend to more creativity among students. They note that Walt Disney stole a character from Buster Keaton, and that otheres like Martin Luther King, Jr.,Thomas Jefferson and Mark Twain were also plagiarists in one way or another.In my opinion, they make valid points. You can only say the same thing about a situation in so many ways. What we learn is always built on what those before us put into the world around us. Technology allows us to build on those ideas and concepts and create better, more productive ones.
For the education majors, What are some ways that you can help your students stay within the guidelines of filesharing? - Petisa
