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Critical reporting on media and technology issues requires going beyond celebrity gossip and celebration of the latest "must-have" gadgets. At the Weave we do our best to keep our eyes on the deeper structures of power, identity, and social transformation that lie at the heart of media and technology issues.

i For an S: The Cloud Feud

Submitted by Csport on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 19:18

The invention of the iCloud has been a technological breakthrough on behalf of the Apple company and the late Steve Jobs.  And like any new and fascinating trend, there will be others that want to replicate it for themselves.  Lately, Samsung has been toying around with the idea of having

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Acquired Tastes

Submitted by Csport on Mon, 03/26/2012 - 19:48

    Well it certainly has been a while since I’ve posted anything.  I have (dare I say) digging around on the Internet for recent topics.  C’mon you know that was a good pun for today’s post.  But I’m not the only one online that has done some digging around for new materials.

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Censorship Videos II

Submitted by Csport on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 14:55

Okay, so these videos aren't necessarily about censorship, but they do pretain to social media and the problems of the Internet.  These are an accumulation of videos that I have found during my research for the past few posts and I want to share them with the readers.  One of which gave me an idea for what to talk about next, but that's for a different day.  So sit back, relax and enjoy.  Happy Monday.

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Let the Artist Rise

Submitted by Csport on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 04:14

I wanted to make a short post and tell you about this organization that I found in my research.  The Creators Freedom Project is a Nashville, TN based group that has made it their purpose to help the starving artists in the world.  Founder Alex Curtis had worked with Public Knowledge, an organization that is out to preserve copyrights and protect creativity and openness on the Internet.  Curtis had the idea to create a new organization that focuses on a specific community that was affected by censorship and copyri

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Sticky Fingers: American Involvement with the Internet

Submitted by Csport on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 03:18

Globalization: the center argument for most of modern day debates, proving to be beneficial to a thriving nation but inflicting dangerous inequality on other countries in the process.  And to have that same conflict with the Internet is an epic on its own.  With the Internet reaching all different countries, it only seemed like a matter of time before someone wanted to own the whole thing. 

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Say Something Tweet

Submitted by Csport on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 15:59

            Twitter has become one of the leaders in social networking with people ranging from celebrities to big name companies using the short hand statements to promote, evoke and entertain.  But lately, the site has caused some scandal in America and other countries.  In January, after the big protest and the SOPA defeat, Twitter came out with a statement that said they would be

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Losing Megaupload

Submitted by Csport on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 05:04

            The demise of SOPA happened two weeks ago, but in my last post, I forgot to mention that it brought down a big site in the process.  The popular file hosting site Megaupload was shut down by the Feds the same week.  Unfortunately, the commotion surrounding that loss was muted in the excitement over SOPA’s defeat. 

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The Darkest Day and the Death of SOPA

Submitted by Csport on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 16:21

            What a week!  As most of you already know, last Wednesday was the Internet’s Day of Darkness where sites like Wikipedia, Google and other smaller, artistically driven pages went dark for almost a full twenty four hours.  Google took the liberty to re-route users to a page where they could sign a virtual petition against SOPA and PIPA.  About 4.5 million people wil

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Censorship Videos

Submitted by Csport on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 03:00

In honor of the Internet's Day of Darkness, I've decided to take this time to post some fun videos that shed light on SOPA and Protect IP.  I will be writing about today in the near future, but for now, sit back, relax and enjoy.  Apologies in advanced, some of the videos didn't transfer well, so I posted links to them.

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Spain Tangos with SOPA

Submitted by Csport on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 17:10

            Back in my high school days, I remember my Spanish teacher telling us about her time in Spain.  The people there, especially the young adult crowd, were not so different from us Americans.   They went out, they experienced what life had to offer them and they used the Internet in same ways as we do.  Years later, I realized just how similar Spain and America are, and it wasn’t in a good way.

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