Aug
2014
Remixing Culture 1st Post
According to the speech “Laws that chock creativity” presented by Larry, he indicated that the development and commercialization of telecommunications pointed out the problem called “Read-only culture”. The RO culture is “one where creativity is consumed but the consumer is not a creator.” Before internet has been created, the creation of culture was owned by those with proverbial vocal cords of “the mass silence”. After internet has been created, “its opprtunity to revive the read-write culture”. I strongly agree with this opinion, because it is the fact that many resouces are undering a commercial monopoly by some corporations before internet is created. During that time, people are perived of their crativity and it is not good for developing human culture. Once internet has been created, people are ablt to find more resources, which makes the new idea “remix”. However, I doubt whether these resources are qualified enought because as we all know, lots of information showing on the internet are junk and not valuable at all. People should be aware of the credibitly of online information.
kaiqing@uoregon.edu
August 6, 2014 at 12:57 pm (11 years ago)Hi Lu:
Glad you share your opinion with me. You have very succinct sentences to summarize the reading. And you focus on read only culture. Then you introduced what is your opinion about read only culture. I have a similar idea about read only culture. According to my post: “The read only culture is speaks of professionalism. Its tokens of culture demand a certain respect. They teach, but not by inviting questions. Read only culture can be both to the spread of culture and to the spread of knowledge” (Lessig, 84). And read only culture emphasizes learning and preserves its integrity. I think read only is the way to learn, but we should apply and recreating, that the purpose of learning. Read only culture people usually stop thinking, they just repeat the process to learn, but it is useless. You connect the author’s and your idea, which are very good. However, personally I think maybe you can point out what is your provoking question.
Zheng Fu
August 8, 2014 at 10:22 pm (11 years ago)Hi Lu, it is so glad to read your opinion about the remix culture. You said that “it is the fact that many resouces are undering a commercial monopoly by some corporations before internet is created.” I think you just talks about the good point of the Internet. Your point shows that Internet could let people share the information more easily. This is true that Internet is a tool that people share opinion and show their opinions to other people. At the same time, Internet does not have a complete rule to protect people’s idea or opinion. People copy other’s opinion in their article, or people copy other people’s product to get profit. This behavior is the bad side of culture remixes. It is good that when you see other people’s creation, you will think about it and create another opinion. People could use other people’s opinion to create, this is culture remix. When people just copy other’s creation and get benefit from it, this is an illegal thing. Nonprofit behavior should be developed and spreaded.
chans@uoregon.edu
August 10, 2014 at 10:27 pm (10 years ago)Hi, Lu. I really agree with you that many online information are junk and we should pay much attention to clarify the credibility of online information. In your post, you did not mentioned the problem that is whether the laws limit people’s creativity. In the TED’s presentation, the speaker argued the laws limit people’s creativity. So I ask that How can we guarantee the benefits of those original creators without laws? In my opinion, the laws are necessary for protecting original creator’s benefits even though it could limit people’s creativity in some extent. How do you think?