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Taylor defines “Free” in two different ways, first in a cultural way, free refers as belonging to everyone and something that no one can own; it belongs to all “knowledge cannot be owned and we have a responsibility to share it” (Taylor, Loc 2210).

Free is also referred as cognition that is public property. Moreover, in the digital world free can be perceived as “ free access”, “free download”, “openness”. According to the software programmer Richard Stallman, Free has two sides “ There’s ‘free’ as in speech and ‘free’ as in beer, as the famous” (Taylor, Loc2241), meaning, that is free culture is for the people to enrich from it, however there is a public ownership. As an example, Taylor states that “ art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential eve, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance diminished our sense of their work” (Taylor Loc.2252). Free, is about keeping culture open meaning that since no one forces an artist to release their work, once they do release it, it should really be free to spread.

Group: Giselle Lopez, Yauheniya Chuyashova

In the chapter “ The Double Anchor” it is seen that copyright has been in the rise since the welcoming of digital media. Has it been applied to digital media regulations on its entirely, not necessarily. It is so easy to search and at the instant of a click one could have access to information that is exposed by others. Nowadays, it is hard to define who is the owner of an idea when hundreds are able to share and even duplicate without ones consent. Digital media has facilitated the access to films that are still at movies, music that is not meant to be free and instead could be very easily downloaded, and also the access to articles that is not meant to be free and instead needs subscription.

As an example “ Companies like Facebook and Google, in contrast, mostly make their money by controlling the platforms on which people distribute various kinds of media, and selling access to their base to advertiser “ (Taylor, Loc 2409). The problem resides in the big corporations; they are the ones who profit from all these clicks and what the public and consumers have access too. Technology has made it easy to copy, burn and “jailbreak”.

Digital Dimes, is referred to the replacement of print advertising into online advertising. That is to say that when the Internet entered the market “ content started circulating freely online, print sales began to decline”(Taylor, Loc 1216). Digital advertising came as a replacement from regular advertisement; for example, craigslist serves the audience as a free website to publish, sell, and advertise, whatever is desired by an individuals means. One could easily find or post for free at speed of a few clicks. Meanwhile, printed advertisement is considered as the “analog dollar” it cost more, it requires investment and planning before going out to the public.
Thus, for an online advertisement to be profitable there must be at least thirty clicks to be equal to an online subscriber. The consequences of online blooming will continue to encounter new ways of turning the analog dollar into digital dime, which later on will evolve to pennies “trading analogue dollars for digital dimes for mobile pennies”.

Technological and media development has provided humanity with a kind of directionality. Mankind and technology has evolved from the essence that separates humans from the ability to use mind for reason. Reason is the ability to analyze, create, deduce, and formulate. It is reason that enables human beings to strive to invent. As an example “ the arts do not benefit from technological advancement in the way other industries do: a half century ago it took pretty much the same amount of time and labor to compose a novel, produce a play, or conduct an orchestra as it takes today” (Taylor, Loc660) meaning, that reasoning plays an important role when it comes to developing and not even with the most advanced technology human reasoning could be replaced.We could say that technology is the sum total of instrumentally useful culturally transmittable information. However, the issue resides whether all of this innovations is going to be a source to replace humankind.

Astra Taylor, discusses in the chapter of “For Love or Money” how creativity has been an important cultural value throughout the course of technological innovations. Sometimes, we assume that everyone who is out in the labor force do what they do for the love of money, but this is human nature being judgmental, there are plenty of “amateurs” that they rather have a intellectual gratification rather a monetary reward or both.Taylor states that there are two types of people, and those who produces for the love of money and those who produces for love of what their passion is. In addition, sometimes people are forced to do what they don’t want to pursue as oppose of what their real passion is. Culture plays a big role in this sense, as they are brainwashed just because is their passion it seems as an imposible to have both.

Hello classmates! I am Giselle Lopez and my response is from Fred Turner’s reading Counterculture to Cyberculture
In Turner’s reading “From Counterculture to Cyberculture” it is stated that technology has had a drift not only scientifically but in the way human beings perceive things as well. Turner makes a clear comparison on how technology has had a dramatically change in the economic growth. Technology came with the ideal of letting the “individual self” out; in addition, it also came with “the image of an ideal society”(Turner). What was once seemed as a feeling of neglecting for technology, it has shifted to be a dependent variable for humanity. The way technology is used nowadays has become as a indispensable source. On the other hand, technology has served as a platform of freedom in many ways. Certainly, technology is also often controlled by the big corporations, meaning that “the Internet would bring a rise of a new “digital generation” – playful, self-sufficient, psychologically whole—and it would see that generation gather, like the Net itself, into collaborative networks of independent peers”(Turner). Technology, once upon a time used as a military source primarily. Later on, during the 90’s the use of technology became more accesible to the general public than just the military platform. Technology has been always in a constant change and will continue to be.