While watching Jon Ippolito’s lecture, one of the concepts he was discussing intrigued me and it was when we was discussing “sharing” among the internet and other networks. One of Ippolito’s main ideas of his presentation was to capture the importance of collaborating information and not just grabbing it and running with it in its entirety. He discusses how it is important that the information we find on the internet is valuable and that we should respect the fact that we are able to view it and collaborate with it. Jon points out that the information we see on the internet is important to be “remixed” amongst one another who are sharing this valuable information. Personally being connected to different networks, i feel honored to be sharing such valuable information with people from all over the world and that I have the privilege to view and collaborate with one anthers information, art and much more facinating stuff.
Jon Ippolito
Ippolito also points out the importance of copy right information in the internet and other medias. Ippolito gives the example of the Texas professor who passed out a license to his students stating that the lectures he gives out in class are not to be shared amongst each other, they cannot share notes of his lecture or record his lectures because without his permission it would be considered “plagiarism”. Ippolito also mentions TurnItIn and how universities pay a lot of money on these systems like that in order to have these type of restrictions for not cheating. This part of his presentation intrigued me because I also had to use TurnItIn in the past before so I can relate to it. All of these new policies were all caused from cheating within students. Ippolito points out that digital art is the same and the importance of remixing other’s ideas and to have the ability to collaborate source material and re-combine it to create a new idea.
Emily Guerrero