Navas – Regressive and Reflexive Mashups in Sampling Culture

Navas, Eduardo.  “Regressive and Reflexive Mashups in Sampling Culture” in Mashup Cultures.  New York: Springer Wien.  2010. Sampling is “when any software users including creative industry professionals as well as average consumers apply cut/copy & paste in diverse software applications.” Remixes find their roots in 1970s Jamaican dub and hip hop. Navas premise in the paper is to argue that when mashups move beyond... Read More

Logie – Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates

Logie, John. Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion : Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates. Parlor Press, 2006. Print. Introduction:  The Cat is Out of the Bag Early on L. notes that this book will consider the anti-piracy arguments of the content industry by analyzing the key terms and metaphors that underpin their claims (6).  In addition, L. claims that he will “interrogate peer-to-peer enthusiasts’ various responses to these arguments,... Read More

Howard – Intellectual Properties in Multimodal, 21st Century Composition Classrooms

Howard, Tharon W. “Intellectual Properties in Multimodal, 21st Century Composition Classrooms.” Copy(Write):  Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom. Eds. Rife, Martine, Danielle Nicole DeVoss and Shaun Slattery, 2011. Print. In this piece H. challenges the commonly held belief that authors have a “natural right” to their work that supersedes all other claims on how the general public might use said... Read More

Galin – The Fair Use Battle for Scholarly Works

Galin, Jeffrey. “The Fair Use Battle for Scholarly Works.” Copy(Write):  Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom. Eds. Rife, Martine, Danielle Nicole DeVoss and Shaun Slattery, 2011. Print. G. notes an important piece by the CCCC-IP:  “Use Your Fair Use:  Strategies toward Action.”  This article provides an overview of fair use and identifies areas where fair use comes into play in academic settings. Important Acts/Conferences... Read More

Dornsife – Is Digital the New Digital? : Pedagogical Frames of Reference and Their Implications in Theory and Practice

Dornsife, Robert. “Is Digital the New Digital? : Pedagogical Frames of Reference and Their Implications in Theory and Practice.” Copy(Write):  Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom. Eds. Rife, Martine, Danielle Nicole DeVoss and Shaun Slattery, 2011. Print. In this piece asks the question:  is it ok to allow or require the analog format to exist in the composition classroom?  D. also considers how notions of “copy”... Read More