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Videocast: "A Needle in a Haystack"
Sonia Seetharaman explores the pros and cons of digital information and research sources in relation to traditional library information cataloging systems. The video focuses on a comparative analysis...
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Videocast: "The New York Surveillance Camera Players"
Sam Ghods explores the purpose and actions of this political activist group, covering general facts about surveillance, what the group has done in protest, and how it has used the internet to further...
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Videocast: "The Athenian Life"
Andy Hogan interviews Steve Anderson (Professor of Interactive Media at USC) about the forces at work in "This Spartan Life", a talk show in set in the world of Halo. Link: This Spartan Life
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Videocast: "Coming Together Online"
Isomi Miake-Lye's videocast explores the communities of Meetup.com, and suggests that it could be a powerful tool for inciting action, as in the case of Democracy for America. Links: Meetup.com,...
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Videocast: "Giving Youth a Voice? Or Just a Little Duck?"
The expansion of new media, including blogging, podcasting and vlogging, has given the community at large more of an opportunity to share opinions and to allow individuals to have a voice. But what...
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Podcast: "The Role of Virtual Communities in Modern Society"
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...
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Podcast: "The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge"
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...
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Internet Walking Tour: "Fly Like an Eagle"
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:...
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Internet Walking Tour: "Wild Animals, Breakfast Cereals, and Daytime Television"
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:...
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Internet Walking Tour: "Tracked by the Amazon"
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
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Internet Walking Tour: "Jack Thompson is a(n) _________ Individual"
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:...
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Internet Walking Tour: "Making New Friends"
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
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Interview with Stacy Smith
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).
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Interview with Jim Babka
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).
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Interview with Ari Schwartz
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).
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Interview with Richard Edwards
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...
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Interview with Henry Jenkins
Andy Hogan interviews MIT Professor Henry Jenkins about the cultural and ideological climate surrounding video games.
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Videocast: "Student Mobilization: A How-To"
Isomi Miake-Lye explores how social online communtities such as facebook.com can be used to mobilize students for activist causes. One of five "how-to" videos exploring new media technologies from an...
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Videocast: "My Big Fat Greek Life"
Lindsay Pond explores how to challenge the cultural and ideological biases of the sorority sustem. One of five "how-to" videos exploring new media technologies from an activist perspective.
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Videocast: "Causing a Not So Clear Channel"
Andy Hogan explores how you can get involved in challenging the hegemony of Clear Channel. One of five "how-to" videos exploring new media technologies from an activist perspective.
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Videocast: "How to Get a Terrorist Through Airport Security"
Sonia Seetharaman takes a satirical look at racial profiling and organized pranking. One of five "how-to" videos exploring new media technologies from an activist perspective.
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Videocast: "Free Your Music"
Sam Ghods shows you how to spot and avoid restrictive Digital Rights Management (DRM). One of five "how-to" videos exploring new media technologies from an activist perspective.
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TenFour Returns
A new year brings with it a new TenFour crew and a new agenda: examining Web 2.0 culture. For this introductory teaser, students Photoshopped themselves into an image they liked, then After Effected...
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Introduction to "The Culture Industry in 60secs"
As winter nears its end, TenFour emerges from its seasonal hibernation, refreshed and ready to kick butt. This videocast is a promo for "The Culture Industry in 60secs," a series of four animated...
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Success 2.0
Part 1 of "The Culture Industry in 60secs," a series of four animated videocasts. This is a 60 second video that attempts to describe part of my relation with the culture industry. It examines the...
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We Like Live...
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...
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Media Giant: A Fairy Tale
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...
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Girl Technology
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...
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Introduction to "Internet Walking Tours"
Take a super secret tour behind the scenes at TenFour HQ. Rumor has it that the TenFour team is working on something that will change human life as we know it.
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Defend Online Creativity!
Part 1 of "Internet Walking Tours," a series of four interactive podcasts. My walking tour podcast will lead you on a minor Internet exodus. Web 2.0 culture is characterized by active social...
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Into the Depths of Facebook
Part 2 of "Internet Walking Tours," a series of four interactive podcasts. So you think you know Facebook? Guess again. This interactive podcast walking tour takes you into the depths of Facebook and...
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Blogging...
Part 3 of "Internet Walking Tours," a series of four interactive podcasts. Join us as we wander through the internet looking at the Web2.0 phenomenon known as blogging.
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BitTorrent vs. MPAA
Part 4 of "Internet Walking Tours," a series of four interactive podcasts. BitTorrent is the latest peer-to-peer file sharing application. Its use has been controversial because it can be used to...
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Presenting: Newgrounds
This project provides information on a compelling aspect of Web 2.0 culture: newgrounds.com. An excellent source of various types of media, such as animation and music, Newgrounds is an exemplar of the...
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Last FM
This podcast explores the Last FM website, a site dedicated to music recommendations and communities. Its numerous interactive features exemplify the idea of Web 2.0. Music: "Berimbau" by Inverted...
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Introduction to "Creative Commons Remix Videos"
The next TenFour series, premiering April 17th-20th, will see the team producing remix videos using raw materials culled entirely from Creative Commons and the Public Domain. This promo video does the...
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Teaching an Old Toon New Tricks
Part 1 of "Creative Commons Remix Videos," a series of four videocasts. This video remix mashup project samples audio from a presentation by Lawrence Lessig and remixes it using public domain vintage...
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Why Creative Commons?
Part 2 of "Creative Commons Remix Videos," a series of four videocasts. In this era of digital technology increasing at a rapid pace, it is important to think about the licenses that restrict digital...
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Digg.com
Heard about Digg? The technology social bookmarking site? Listen in and learn why Digg is quickly becoming the most-accessed technology news site on the internet and why it is almost more popular than...
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Networked Publics Vlog: Machinima
One of three videoblogs from today's Networked Publics Conference at the USC Annenberg Center for Communication. For my video blog, I chose to focus my coverage on machinima: animated films created...
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Networked Publics Vlog: Makers
One of three videoblogs from today's Networked Publics Conference at the USC Annenberg Center for Communication. For my videoblog, I spoke to two gurus from the world of DIY hack culture: Mark...
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Networked Publics Vlog: Net Neutrality
Today we ventured to the Networked Publics Conference held by the USC Annenberg Center. I talked with experts and conference attendees about network neutrality ... this is what they had to say.
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Networked Publics Interview: Marc Tuters
In addition to video blogging the Networked Publics Conference, the TenFour team also sat down with a number of the participants for a series of audio podcast interviews. For this first interview, I...
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Networked Publics Interview: Jonathan McIntosh
For this interview from the Networked Publics Conference, I sat down with social justice activist Jonathan McIntosh to discuss political remixes, open source, and the IndyMedia movement.
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Networked Publics Interview: Mark Frauenfelder
For this interview from the Networked Publics Conference, I sat down with Mark Frauenfelder to discuss his work with Boing Boing and Make: Magazine.
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Reinventing the Wheel
Part 3 of "Creative Commons Remix Videos," a series of four videocasts. A remix video on free culture and building upon the creativity of the people before us.
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Remix Culture and Generation Y
In this videocast, I interviewed the future artists of America on how they feel about copyright, creative commons, and remix culture and how they think it will affect their careers. It's interesting to...
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Networked Publics Interview: Paul Marino
While at the Networked Publics Conference and Media Festival, I had the good fortune of securing an interview with the talented Paul Marino, one of the founding fathers of machinima. While providing...
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Networked Publics Interview: Jonathan McIntosh, Part Deux
I interviewed Jonathan McIntosh during the Networked Publics Conference at USC. We talked about his webpage, journalism objectivity, and the impact of Internet and Media on activism.
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Mickey Mouse Copyright Laws
Part 4 of "Creative Commons Remix Videos," a series of four videocasts. This is a remix project criticizing Disney's role in extending copyright laws and its catastrophic effects upon Public Domain and...
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