Chapter 2 Questions

Voc.

Louis Daguerre- "was perhaps the most famous of several people who invented photography."
Daguerrotype-a photograph produced on a silver-coated copper plate treated with iodine vapor.
William Talbot-was one of the first photographers and made major contributions to the photographic process. He is also remembered as the holder of a patent which affected the early development of photography in England.
George Eastman- inventor of the first film in roll form
in 1884 and the Kodak camera in 1888.
Democratization - "Democratization is the transition from authoritarian or semi-authoritarian systems to democratic political systems, where democratic systems are taken to be those approximating to universal suffrage, regular elections, a civil society, the rule of law, and an independent judiciary. "
Susan Sontag- "American essayist, short story writer, and novelist, a leading commentator on modern culture, whose innovative essays on such diverse subjects as camp, pornographic literature, fascist aesthetics, photography, AIDS, and revolution gained a wide attention. Sontag also wrote screenplays and directed films. She had a great impact on experimental art in the 1960s and 1970s, and she introduced many new stimulating ideas to American culture"
Ubiquity- being everywhere at once
Napster- Company developed in the 1990's that allowed people to download music for free. It was shut down and now you have to pay to use the service.
Louis Brandeis- "Brandeis became active in Zionist affairs during the First World War, when he accepted the role of Chairperson of the Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs."
Media Literacy- "The ability to read, analyze, evaluate and produce communication in a variety of media forms (television, print, radio, computers, etc.)"
Read-only- World of media from the twentieth century






1. Creation and ownership are linked because when something has been created it has a sense of value. It is important that when someone owns something it has a value.

2. The legal environment in 1888 to 1990 was centered around creating laws that would protect the ownership of the many inventions that were being produced.

3.Lessig adressed on pg 33 that photographers would have had to ask permission to take someones picture if it was not for the courts who eventualy overturned this.

4. Any picture taken on public property is considered to be ok. If you were to take a picture of the liberty bell and some stranger was in the picture, it would not make sense to ask for there permission. Any picture taken on private property has to be given permisson before that picture gets published or posted.

5. A blog is something like a journal. The only big diffrence is that its on the internet. This makes the idea of a journal very diffrent. People know that there friends or other strangers can look at what your writing. This alows people to check up on there friends with out actualy talking to them.

6. Yes, some parellels are video recording. If you are being recorded and do not want to be then you mist notify the person who is recording.

7. If photographers had to ask for permisson everytime there would be a big drop in pictural magizines. People would demand money or be hesitent about geting there picture taken. And for celeberity magizines, you can forget about it.

8. Photography is a little diffrent then music sharing like napster. Photography is something witch every one at somepoint does. Family photos or even a class photo. Music on the other hand takes alot of production and is something that is copy righted. They take something that would cost money and give it away for free.

9. A picture is worth a thousand words. This would be an example of media litaracy. The idea that you can comunicate threw a media form. This is a very important part of being a multi media student. Taking your ideas and transfering them into some other medium.

10. I guess grammer of media is the process in creating your new medium in a way where you are not affending someone or the idea of having permission for the subjects in your work.

12. I think Lessig is just making a point about what photographers went through. I think he is trying to make sure that we figure out how to adabt to are digital age rather then just brake the rules.

13. Before blogs people would use forums such as talk radios or discussion groups or letters to the editor. The reason that blogs are alot diffrent then these old forums is because all of these old forms were censered. People could not say what ever they wanted because there wa always an editor. The attraction to blogs is that you type what you want and then you press send and its there for everyone to read. No waiting time.

14. Some public dialogue and discussions that are common are town hall meetings, T.V and radio talk shows, magizines, newspaper, chat rooms, interaction between you and friends, and any other public meeting area where discussion goes on.

15. Yea, of course we have a safe place to talk politics. Id say you can talk anywhere. In america you have freedom of speech. I can talk politics on the street or on CNN.

16. Technology helps learning and makes it harder as well. There are alot of good tools that technology has given us that make life easier and make learning fun. The big problem is that technology changes very very fast and to use these tools we have we have to learn to use them. When they keep updating software and coming out with new programs we have to constantly keep educating are selfs on how to use them. This takes up alot of time.

17. I would agree with this statement, because you can do anything on the internet and you cant say the same for T.V and radio or the newpaper, all of witch you can use on the internet.