Social Media Education
For my final assignment for the ETEC531: Cultural and New Media Studies course the topic I selected was media literacy, specifically related to social media use by children and teens.
I created the movie using iMovie. After reading about Fair Use in the course, I overcame my fear of using copyrighted content for remixing. I ensured that all the content I used was credited and stayed within the Fair Use recommendations so:
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- the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
- the nature of the copyrighted work;
- the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
- the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
During this semester, I became quite interested in the idea of how digital technology is “rewiring” our brains. In fact, I referred to it in a recent blog post for the ETEC540: Text Technologies: The Changing Spaces of Reading and Writing course.
The following video provides a good explanation of how social media Is rewiring our brains: