Hearn, Luke

An experimental online system for mapping cultural production - Chislehurst : Ravensbourne College, 2006

The pattern of activity which has emerged is that sharing and knowledge are the dominant forces in driving rapid expansion of network information space, not money and in this way the community seeks to provide a forum for such activity to occur where users are able to educate each other about how ideas and cultural products have evolved through a collaborative filtering system. Ideas and cultural products may not be as original as they first appear, and in contrast to the myrrhs propagated by multi national media corporations such as Disney. It is motivated by a disregard for the extensions to copyright law which continue to put ;limits on cultural creativity and use a language of criminality under intellectual property regimes. MA dissertation: Network Media Environment


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