Monthly Archives: January 2012

Artists are against SOPA too

robinna/ January 18, 2012/ Uncategorized/ 2 comments

I was hoping that SOPA was truly dead, but it’s not. We do need to address piracy but not at the sake of controlling the internet – CENSORSHIP! One of the largest advocates for SOPA is the MPAAA, the organization responsible for censoring movies in the 1930s aka the Hays Code. (yeah, that was a great idea…. not) I think

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Facebook kills library’s historical profiles

robinna/ January 11, 2012/ Libraries, History of Technology, social media, watch.see.hear/ 0 comments

Sooo… Facebook has already killed the historical profile accounts which were written about well… just about everywhere (Google Joe McDonald)  although it seems like they also killed a potentially great PR and marketing campaign.  “While McDonald and Lewis initially only had friends who were distant relatives, their lists of connections swelled from just over 100 each to more than 1,000.

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ACRL new media/visual literacy standards for higher ed

robinna/ January 5, 2012/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

“The increasing dominance of images and visual media in contemporary culture is changing what it means to be literate in the 21st century. Today’s society is highly visual, and visual imagery is no longer supplemental to other forms of information. New digital technologies have made it possible for almost anyone to create and share visual media. Yet the pervasiveness of

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