Dana Boyd has 2 really great articles that discusses issues relating to when media becomes culture. Part I looks at Rethinking copyright issues and part II explores the concept that remix is active consumption not production. If you spend most of your time in the trenches designing websites and writing code you probably don’t spend a lot of time examining the larger issues as to where exactly all this effort is taking us collectively, and that’s the value of these short but interesting articles.
As a person who does exactly that I find it exhilarating to dig into posts like this because it provides some context as to my efforts. Boyd has an academic background but does not write like an academic, and I always find her essays to be provokative and worthwhile.
