Northern Goshawk: If the Network Society unfolds in the information age as it seems to be doing, - emerging from the two industrial revolutions (since at least the early 1700s), Copyright, Creative Commons' Law and beginning Law Schools

James, and Information Technology and the Network Society participants,

Very interesting! And if the Network Society unfolds in the information age as it seems to be doing, - emerging from the two industrial revolutions (since at least the early 1700s), the emergence of printing press in the late 1400s in western Europe (see Manuel Castells' "The Internet Galaxy"), and related changes in thinking, all of which we'll begin to explore in this Thursdays second hour - with some semiconductor implants (heart and medicine-related, etc. http://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20050727/chip-implants-better-care-privacy-scare) already becoming widespread, might not the Network Society just continue to expand 500 years ahead, building on industrialization, and communication thanks to literacy and (significantly STEM centric) idea-sharing, now on the web, and related developments in reasoning and knowledge-generation?

Are you up for helping to facilitate a conversation about chapter 1 in "Networked" this Thursday, James, on Harvard's island, which I invite everyone to read?

Keep reading "Networked" everyone, and again please watch Boellstorff's interview -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XkZMXtDEWM . He's a Stanford Ph.D. anthropologist and professor at the University of California, and his "Coming of Life in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008) is an important anthropological contribution to the social science conversation about virtual worlds and digital technologies, and methodologically especially. (And have you all watched the UC Berkeley Manuel Castells' Globetrotter video? - http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Castells/).

And please add your paragraph of introduction per your research interests (toward a course certificate).

Talk with you all online Thursday at 7 am PDT. :)

Best,

Scott

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If it isn't there already: http://yarchive.net/macaulay/copyright.html My favorite explanation of the problem.

James

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James, and All,

Great ideas, James, and more later about your most recent 'Interest.' post in our Google Group, but I just noticed on your G+ Profile page - ... - your posting about Copyright, and I'd like to invite all of you to check out the wiki, Copyright page at World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Copyright - as an example of a Subject page, for open, wiki, teaching and learning. (WUaS is planning online Law Schools in all or many of the 242+ countries in the world, and here's the beginning of it in English - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School ... and here's the Creative Commons' Law wiki page at WUaS, as well - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Creative_Commons_Law). I've added the article you posted - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/09/copyright-industries-pushing-search-engine-voluntary-agreements-despite-risks - to both of these pages.

Also, let's please all 'Follow' each other in G+ Profiles and begin to converse on our G+ profile pages vis-a-vis this "Information Technology and the Network Society" course.

Want to start an online, MIT OCW-centric, Creative Commons' licensed university, with free, MIT-centric, university degrees planned, in your country (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States) or language (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages)? Begin to develop it at WUaS, in a main language there.

Regards,
Scott

James,

I added this important Copyright speech from 1841 in Britain - A SPEECH DELIVERED IN A COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE 6TH OF APRIL 1842 ... http://yarchive.net/macaulay/copyright.html (for those of us who want to think through and understand Copyright's origins, and legal philosophy) - to the Copyright, wiki, Subject page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Copyright.

It's an important speech in intellectual (and legal and copyright) history ... please read!

Best,

Scott