The Video as Composition Project: MySpace/Facebook, the Teaching of Writing, and the Problem of Fair use

     
  Resources

Assignments

New Media Writing and Video Composition

Camtasia Studio (Onscreen Video Tutorial Assignment)
Trial Version of Camtasia Studio


Intellectual Property Rights/Fair Use

ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS:
Promoting Innovation and Competition

(University of Texas) Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials

CCCC Statement on the Multiple Uses of Writing

CCCC Developments in Fair Use and Intellectual Property


References

Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition

 

  Faigley, Lester, Diana George, Anna Palchik, and Cynthia Selfe. Picturing Texts: Composition in a Visual Age. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.

Johnson-Eilola, Johndan. Datacloud: Toward A New Theory Of Online Work (New Dimensions in Computers and Composition). Cresskill: Hampton Press, 2005.

Lynch, Dennis A., and Anne Frances Wysocki. Compose, Design, Advocate. New York: Longman, 2006.

Odell, Lee and Susan M. Katz.  Writing in a Visual Age. Boston: Bedford St. Martin's Press, 2006.

Wysocki, Anne Francis, Johndan Johnson-Eiola, Cynthia L. Selfe and Geoff Sirc. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2004.

Data from the CCCC-Sponsored "Survey of Multimodal Pedagogies in Writing Programs"
Excellent data that defines Multimodality


YouTubes (links subject to disappear for no reason or warning)

Facebook Infomercial Parody

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dHi-ZcvFV_0

The Facebook Skit

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6FahBBnfHAQ&feature=related

Facebook Song

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rSnXE2791yg&feature=related

Stanford Facebook Class on NBC11

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RwpGcfAV9fQ

Facebook Move On Privacy Controversy

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iOm9zdRx7AI

 

The Truth About Facebook

http://youtube.com/watch?v=B37wW9CGWyY

MySpace Suicide: The Megan Meier Story

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6MxxqcH_Mkc

UPDATE on myspace hoax that pushed Megan Meier to suicide

http://youtube.com/watch?v=h4TcMH2QEE4

Tina Meier talks about myspace hoax that killed Megan

http://youtube.com/watch?v=b9qJLUZs97Y

Cyber vigilantes attack for Megan Meier!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0zRHua-JjM0

 

 

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