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Culture Digitally the Podcast Episode 3: Conversations on Algorithms and Cultural Production

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Hello everyone.   We have a new episode of Culture Digitally the Podcast.  It’s the third installment in a series that documents conversations among digital media scholars on issues relevant to the study of culture, digital media and technology. The discussion format is open and gives our readers the chance to hear our contributors thinking aloud.  […]

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Lodsys, “Patent trolls,” and Free Culture, or, Was the Web really ever emancipatory?

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So, I know I’m using emancipation very loosely here. Saying emancipation begs the question:  Emancipation from what?  I’m trying to cheekily hark back to early ideas of the Internet as a space that can emancipate us from mass culture by making us all producers and consumers of cultural products.  Nowadays, most of us accept that the cultural production […]

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