Weinberger: Everything is Miscellaneous is basically talking about the digital orders of how things are organized on the internet and what changes need to be made in order to better organize the information being offered within the internet. He also talks a lot about how organization is changing due to the shift to the digital world.
Jenkins: Convergence culture is mainly about the digital revolution and how the different forms of media are transforming along with our culture. Jenkins talks about how the convergence is taking place and how it impacts both the audiences and producers of content. He explains that this convergence is not only a technological revolution but a major culture shift as well.
Lessig: Remix is a book that covers many of the controversies and problems with today’s copyright laws. Lessig goes into detail about how this new shift to the digital world and how the laws regarding this digital content need to be changed in order to better suit our shifting culture. He talks about how to change the copyright laws themselves as well as the change that needs to take place among people and their moral outlook.
Key Terms: Here are some of the key terms that I feel stick out in all three of these books and in some ways tie into each other very well: Delivery technologies- basically the technologies that are enabling users to become more involved in the media content world. Media Convergence- is where multiple media systems integrate to co-exist and provides a more fluid flow of content. Web 2.0- the technologies that are enabling users to be more collaborative with one another and essentially reshaping the role of the user. Participatory culture- basically a culture where a community combines its knowledge to become more educated with Wikipedia being a great example. There are many other key terms throughout the three books but I feel that these are some universal terms that are thrown around in different forms in the three books.
Connection between the books: In my opinion a lot of the universal ideas surrounding the cultural shift that is taking place into the new digital world. One of the basic terms that is common is the participatory culture and how it is changing the world we live in and how we interact in it as well. I feel that Jenkins and Weinberger have much more of a connection of ideas because they are focusing on the actual culture shift itself. Lessig does talk about this shift but focuses on what the future needs to go towards and the changes that need to be made.
Final Project relation: I feel that the information we have learned from these three books will help us tremendously in our final project website design. We know where our culture is heading and I feel that if we can tailor the website to these ideas we have learned, the project itself will be very successful.
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This is fairly well done, however it's a big vague--that is, there's no solid details here to really help me see that you "get" the so what of the readings. That is, who does these points matter for and why? What, specifically, do the authors say that see relevant? The connections part is fairly well done, but this just could've gone into a lot more detail overall.
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