Copyright or Copy Wrong: Navigating Copyright and Fair Use in Student Video Assignments
9:45-11:00 a.m. Room 212
This session will explore some of the theory behind the use of new media in
the classroom and will explore some of the challenges we face, particularly
in regards to copyright and Fair Use laws, when allowing our students to
become producers of their own digital texts.
New Media Scholarship
The New London Group: Multiliteracies;“A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures”
- Concept of Design
- Gunther Kress & Semiotics
- James Gee & Fast Capitalism
Henry Jenkins: Convergence Culture : Where Old and New Media Collide
- Media Convergence
- Participatory Culture
- YouTube & Social Networks
Daniel Anderson: “Prosumer Approaches to New Media Composition”
- Consumer + Producer = Prosumer
Anne Wysocki et. al. : Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition
Cynthia Selfe et. al: Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers
Lights, Camera, Action: Navigating Copyright and Fair Use in Student Video Assignments
Solutions:
- Encourage Students to Create Their Own Content
- Explain and Explore Creative Commons, WikiMedia and Freeplay Music and the like (Pretty Lights, NIN)
- Collaborate with Resident Experts, Create Copyright Library Guides (Internet Archives, Prelinger Archives, YouTube Content, Government Archives)
- DON’T PANIC: Know the rules and give y0ur students some breathing room
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