Archive for February, 2007

Links for workshop on new media

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

These are the links for my presentation at a teachers’ workshop entitled ‘”Broadcast Yourself”: how the internet is transforming traditional media’.

On wikipedia

Nature report on wikipedia which concluded that, for a subset of science articles, it was not not much less reliable than the Encyclopedia Britannica:

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html

Encyclopedia Britannica‘s response to Nature report:

http://corporate.britannica.com/britannica_nature_response.pdf

Nature‘s rebuttal of Encylopedia Britannica:

http://www.nature.com/nature/britannica/eb_advert_response_final.pdf

The Guardian: Can you trust wikipedia?:

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/opinion/story/0,16541,1599325,00.html

On white phosphorus story

Correntwire blog entry on White Phosphorus which provided links to online sources showing the U.S. military had used White Phosphorus in Falluja:

correntwire blog story

BBC News story on White Phosphorus (largely a write up of the blogs):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4442988.stm

BBC news journalist reflects on the power of blogging in the wake of the white phosphorus story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/4696668.stm

Bill Thompson (BBC technology commentator) on the power of blogging:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4492150.stm

New Media and Copyright Issues

Presentation on ‘Free Culture’ given by Lawrence Lessig in 2002 at the OReilly Open Source Conference. Note that this is a flash presentation with embedded audio of Lessig speaking:

http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html

Lessig’s book, Free Culture, is freely available online:

http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf

youtube clips played

http://youtube.com/watch?v=z8SYHxlH9mI

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DLqCM16i6QY