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Part 4 of "The Culture Industry in 60secs," a series of four animated videocasts. My unique experience with technology at an early age has shaped the way I view and participate with media. As a young girl, I was involved in typical "girl" activities but also taught computer skills. Most girls today are still not exposed to technology in the same way as boys. Technology still seems to be gendered. This project was done using After Effects and Final Cut Pro.

Part 3 of "The Culture Industry in 60secs," a series of four animated videocasts. Once upon a time in a land not so far away a young lady named Snow Charlotte decided to make her own media, but the evil Lord of Disney, Robert Iger, wanted to control the most media of them all.

Part 2 of "The Culture Industry in 60secs," a series of four animated videocasts. Why do we like live television? Is it because we feel like we are there? Is it because we know that anything can happen? Is it because we know that what we are seeing is actually what is happening, not an edited version? This vidcast explores this in 60 seconds. Technical: Created in After Effects. The audio was captured using Audacity.

Andy Hogan interviews MIT Professor Henry Jenkins about the cultural and ideological climate surrounding video games.

Sonia Seetharaman interviews St. Mary's College Professor Richard Edwards about the role of new media in higher education. Look for "Out of the Past" in the iTunes Podcast Directory to listen to Professor Edwards' podcasts.

Sam Ghods interviews Ari Schwartz about the recent Sony BMG rootkit issue and his work as the Associate Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology (www.cdt.org).

Isomi Miake-Lye interviews Jim Babka about online political activist networks and his work as Director and Co-Founder of one such organization, Downsize DC (www.downsizedc.org).

Lindsay Pond interviews USC Professor Stacy Smith about gender representations in children's media and her work with Geena Davis' "See Jane" project (www.seejane.org).

In this interactive podcast, Isomi Miake-Lye defamiliarizes community on the Internet. Begin tour here: http://iml104.iml.annenberg.edu/tenfour/podcasts/podcast_2_html/isomi_podcast_2.html

In this interactive podcast, Andy Hogan is your guide for a tour of his del.icio.us bookmarks of Internet sites about Jack Thompson, the crusader against video game violence. Begin tour here: http://iml104.iml.annenberg.edu

In this interactive podcast, Sam Ghods is your guide for a tour of Amazon.com, examining how the site records personal data about your shopping and browsing habits. Begin tour here: http://www.amazon.com

In this interactive podcast, Lindsay Pond is our guide for an "Internet safari" that explores how America's tweens use the Internet. Begin tour here: http://iml104.iml.annenberg.edu/tenfour/podcasts/podcast_2_html/lindsay_podcast_2.html

In this interactive podcast, Sonia Seetharaman explores the internet as a research tool and teaches critical skills to find and distribute information about the American Bald Eagle. Begin tour here: http://www.wikipedia.org.

In this podcast, Sonia Seetharaman discusses "Ontology is Overated", Clay Shirky's article on cataloguing and folksonomy and the pros and cons of each system. Sonia also discusses possibilities for the future of information organization and retrieval in the online realm. Link: Ontology is Overrated.

In this podcast, Isomi Miake-Lye explores the development of the online community and its role in society, looking at arguments from Geert Lovink and Sherry Turkle. Isomi suggests that both activism and a communal spirit are possible in the virtual community, and references to Robert Putnam's Better Together help identify what makes a community effective. Links: Lovink video, Turkle article.

An in-class, old-school debate about the value of blogs in relation to traditional news outlets. Defending the blogosphere are Isomi Miake-Lye, Sonia Seetharaman and Andy Hogan; defending traditional new media are Sam Ghods and Lindsay Pond. The debate moderators are Sam Goldberg and Andrew Syder. In this final round, the two teams duke it out by asking each other questions.

Professor J. Lawford Anderson discusses "natural" and "unnatural" disaster from an Earth Sciences perspective. J. Lawford Anderson is Professor of Earth Sciences at USC. This videoblog was created by Lindsay Pond. For more information about "Learning From Katrina: Anticipation, Preparation, Response" visit http://usckatrinateachin.blogspot.com

A summary and extension of Lawrence Lessig and Jeff Tweedy's presentation, Who Owns Culture?, at the New York Public Library on April 7th, 2005. This podcast also features a clip from a Q&A following a talk given by Lessig at the USC Annenberg Center for Communication in December 2004. Video of this talk and the Q&A can be downloaded here.

After examining Mark Dery's article concerning culture jamming in relation to video game culture, we then discuss grassroots and juvenile appropriation of video game images and later include theories of radicalism in general. Links: Mark Dery article on Culture Jamming, Nintendo Fan Fiction, Slash Fan Fiction, Super Mario Spoof Video (from Newsgrounds)

In this podcast, Lindsay Pond explores how tween culture is shaped by adult attitudes towards sexuality. She draws on the article "Sex in Public" by Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner (from Simon During, ed., THE CULTURAL STUDIES READER) to analyze how heteronormative hegemonic systems impact how society views non-heterosexual identities in children and children's culture. The PBS-Kids website that Lindsay discusses can be found here