Reading For Monday, the 26th: Is Google Making Us Stupid?

We'll be taking a look at Nicholas Carr's now famous argument about Google from The Atlantic.  Give it a read.  It's kind of interesting.  Click on the fish to get the article...



Carr, Nicholas. "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 01 July 

     2008. Web. 10 Nov. 2014.

Or you can access... the original print version.

Copyleft - Future Music

What is the music of the future?

Bjork attached an album to an app

Ever since music has gone digital, and even before that, maintaining it as property has been difficult... because of the new connected technologies.  Citation is... looser here than in text.

The music of the future seems to be heading in the direction of a shared form...

Copyright

Copyleft

Bound By Law Comic on Copyright

Creative Commons

The Grey Album by Danger Mouse

Jay-Z feat. Justin Timberlake - Holy Grail - Official Radio Edit from Entix on Vimeo.

Other References to Kurt Cobain in Rap

Blurred Lines Copyright Lawsuit

Nine Inch Nails releases DRM-free album for free

The Wub Machine

Gender Remixer

Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q. as a repurposing of da Vinci's Mona Lisa

350.org and Future Stories

Check out 350.org


Neil Gaiman: What kind of world do we want to live in? from TED Ideas on Vimeo.





Margaret Atwood on "Are Humans Necessary?" from The New York Times

Margaret Atwood's work with The Future Library Project

Reading: Slow, Hyper, and Machine

Some Tips on Reading


Close Reading

Read Barack Obama's handwritten reflection on The Gettysburg Address closely and carefully.


Hyper Reading

1. Start.
2. Skim.
3. Sideread.
4. Surmise.

Read Jaron Lanier's You Are Not A Gadget in 5 minutes.  Then, report back, and tell me what it's about.


Machine Reading

Let's take H.G. Wells's The Time Machine and read it using Spritz via Readsy and Wordle.

Read quickly through a Twitter tag.
     How is reading and writing different on Twitter or text messaging?
     Are there rules?

Notes:

See Hayles's article on these different modes of reading, as well as Bayard's How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read. 

Welcome to Ecologies and Technologies of Reading and Writing

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