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ACTA and the intellectual property

ACTA and the intellectual property

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Today, on Guy Fawkes night, there is held a demonstration against ACTA in Oslo, Norway. Since I am living in Edinburgh, Scotland for the moment I have no opportunity to participate or view this demonstration. Instead I want to write down some reflections and ideas on Digital Media, Globalization and the fight against counterfeits  either if they are manifested through ideas, copyright, connotations or imitations. I do not have any particular knowledge about the ACTA agreement, except what I have…

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Listomania

Listomania

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“Think less but see it grow like a riot, like a riot, oh I’m not easily offended It’s not hard to let it go from a mess to the masses” The article’s title being a slightly modified song title by Phoenix, and containing the chorus from the same song, this is not a tribute to the popular French band but rather an explanation on something I have seen as being a growing phenomena in mine, and others, Internet habits: the…

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The Gumtree Dream Massacre

The Gumtree Dream Massacre

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“Nice flat to let. 400 ppm. Central location” – The flat advertisements on Gumtree attracting possible tenants with nice pictures, a good descriptive text of your dream flat, and a price you can afford can create many dreams. A good kitchen to cook fantastic meals, a fancy living room with many seats for friends and family and a delicate bath- and bedroom. You think you have found THE flat, could it be too good to be true? Jane is letting…

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Information society

Information society

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As the hypervisuality from the 90’s went over in the overflow of information of the 00’s something happend. The traditionaly trend that things changes more often and that things last shorter went into warpdrive. In the 60’s and 70’s the television-planning was buildt into big groups of programs. The variety was limited and so was also the offers of different television channels. In the eighties something happend, the national regulations, controlling the broadcasting sector, were loosened up and more and…

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Shared opinions

Shared opinions

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Today the ministry of government administration and reform published their new book about digital medias and sharing culture through the Internet. The meeting was hold at their offices, but also through media channels like their homepage and twitter. The book raises different problems and questions which are actual for a society, in which more and more information is spread in other untraditional ways. Some of the questions the book raises is if its right to criminalize music downloading and if…

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Media events

Media events

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Doing a semester in one and a half month sure is exhausting, but its also interesting. I´ve allready delivered my exam in popular medias and now its time for the other course media-usage, power and society. This course count 20 ECTS and has a lot of litterature, including much sosiology and jounalism. (So far.) A little, but also interesting part of the literature covers the so called media events. Typical examples on media events are the first moon landing, the…

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism

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Then I was finnished with one of my first exams here back in Norway after my Erasmus-semester abroad. The exam was in the course “Media and popular culture”. An interesting course, with many different thoughts from different scientists. From the culturalism, to the Freudian psycoanalysts to structuralism and Postmodernism. The good thing about this course is that the exam-method gives the opportunity to develop some ideas and get to know the litterature on the subject which you have to write…

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The refrigerator prank

The refrigerator prank

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The kitchen, which my neighbors and I uses have recently have a transformation. It all started when we wanted to hang up a nude girl calendar, like the one you can find in every lunch room in a masculine dominated work enviroment. Every of the boys also wrote the name on the favorite girl. Later on the competition began. Meda had a Biggi B’a’r’d’o’t (Changed the name since this name got a lot of hits on googl) poster in his…

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