Briggs Chapter 1

February 8th, 2011  Tagged , , , , , , ,

We’re All Web Workers Now Photo credit: smileham/flickr …Says Mark Briggs. This thirty some page chapter dove straight in describing the basics of how the internet works and the technical contruction of web pages . Briggs had a graph like picture to help teach about Bits and Bytes. A comparable image I found was on a […]

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Lecture by Claudia Holland on copyright and fair use

February 5th, 2011  Tagged , , , ,

George Mason University’s copyright officer, Claudia Holland visited with Klein’s Online Journalism class to talk about copyright and fair use on Thursday, February 3, 2011. The lecture was Power Point based and started out with explaining that copyrighted traits are expressions and originality; protected works are literary, architectural, sounds recordings, motion pictures, and other picture, […]

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Media Consumption

February 5th, 2011  Tagged ,

One of our first homework assignments for Online Journalism was to read Eric Deggans’ article, What is Your Media Pyramid? Essentially your media pyramid should end up looking like the food group pyramid. The bottom level of mine started out with the huge giants of media like powerhouses aol.com, msn.com, huffingtonpost.com and washingtonpost.com as my […]

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