• Who owns images of products? The company that produces them, or those that take the pictures? This comes up in the case of Ford, who is arguing that the Black Mustang Club cannot produce and circulate a calendar with pictures of their cars on it (Boing Boing).
• AcademHack: using Twitter in Academia.
• Inside Higher Ed: Using Zotero for doing research online (Via AcademHack).
• Times Online: Google is “white bread for the mind” (Thanks Sara!):
“Google offers easy answers to difficult questions. But students do not know how to tell if they come from serious, refereed work or are merely composed of shallow ideas, superficial surfing and fleeting commitments.
“Google is filling, but it does not necessarily offer nutritional content,†she [Tara Brabazon] said.
• JISC: “Google Generation” is a myth (Thanks Sara!).
• Inside Higher Ed: Erika Falk’s new book Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns reveals that women have run serious campaigns for president in the past, and the book suggests that we combat the “novelty frame” that argues that a women running for president is something new.
• Inside Higher Ed: No shock here, but political science textbooks do an awful job of discussing race outside of chapters on civil rights movements.
• Digital Ethnography: Michael Wesch’s presentation on “Yes, you can (& should) use YouTube videos in the classroom”.
• Eyeteeth: A case of misreading: George Bush’s favorite painting (via The Blogora).
• The Chronicle: Questioning The Value of Social-Networking Sites for Libriarans.
