Aaron Swartz was a man who didn’t like having his actions and movements being restricted. This translated into his works through the projects and businesses he built. The film The Internets Own Boy focuses on Aaron Swartz and his beliefs and values in the realm of computers and the Internet, one of his focus’ being the belief in communal access and contribution to information on the internet. In The Wealth of Networks, Yochai Bencher touches on his focus on the concept of open platforms for multi-person production and sharing, with no financial gain. Both Swartz and Bencher share view with “commons”. Aaron Swartz believed people should be guaranteed their freedoms and liberty that should come with use of the internet, which was pinnacle in …show more content…
Swartz believed in peer production platforms, where the production of the content and information of a website was dependant on what Bencher describes as “individual action that is self-selected and decentralized, rather than hierarchically assigned” (p62). Swartz’s websites RSS, Redditt, and The Info, Creative Commons, and many more, were created with the idea of an open platform, with their copyright going from the common “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved”. Swartz was always questioning things, and believed in information. As a result, he believed in accessible information, and that internet users should be able access and contribute to. He and Bencher both believed in decentralized peer production, in that the contributios would unite and and be effective even though “the number of people whose will counts to direct effective action” (p62). Swartz’s view of open access wasn’t only limited to creating content, but also with sharing information that is already online. For example, rather than internet users constantly paying for public records, Swartz brought public access, to public domain, with websites such as WatchDog and OpenLibrary, users were able to pull scholarly articles for
In his memoir revolution 2.0 the young Google marketing executive Wael Ghonim emerged as an internet activists’. His advocacy for freedom of the suppressed ordinary people initiated
With an entity as vast as the Internet, it is not surprising that a variety of unanswered questions will arise. I’m positive that the Internet will continue to confound scholars as it continues to quickly evolve. By analyzing the views of the celebrants and skeptics, I have been able to understand the potential that the internet has. By using the PEC, I have been able to understand how democracy and capitalism relate to the issues of the Internet. In the future, I hope that society can develop a further understanding of the Internet and move toward the Internet that the celebrants had hoped for.
...been put on the technological platform itself and the infrastructure of it, and too little on the social and cultural context of the citizens and users. Communtes basically can not be created with technology if the social and cultural networks are not there, and if users do not see the benefit or are not motivated for using the technology” (Bondebjerg 9)
...have direct access to billions of clients promptly, the developments of open source communities and attitudes, all these captivating developments are sure to transform the autocratic Soviet-like stone monuments of today into interests that people of political economy.
Through her use of each of the appeals, DiUbaldi persuades the reader effectively. By using Pathos, DiUbaldi is able to help the reader to sympathize with the plight of the modern-day Photographer. Many Photographers today do not make enough money from their photos due to the reposting of their content on other sites. Perhaps more important than the appeals to Pathos in her paper are the appeals to Ethos. She begins the essay by using an appeal to Ethos. She appeals to Ethos by establishing how often she checks Social Media at the beginning of the essay. By informing the reader of her role in consuming content in a way she feels should be illegal, DiUbaldi lends a sense of humility to her essay. The reader can see why she feels the way she does. Additionally, DiUbaldi provides further credibility by citing academic journals that have covered the issue of modern-day Copyright laws. However, the most effective rhetorical appeal used in the article is the use of Logos. Specifically, DiUbaldi uses Logos by bringing attention to Eric Schlacter’s “The Intellectual Property Renaissance in Cyberspace: Why Copyright Law Could Be Unimportant on the Internet.”. The reason she brings attention to Schlacter’s article is to bring an opposing viewpoint, and then refuting
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Viewing the documentary, “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz,” allows one to learn more about one of the internet’s most formative figures. Swartz, intrigued with the internet since a young child, made several notable ventures. Swartz is credited for being one of Reddit’s cofounders, while also having endeavors with RSS feed and creating various internet hubs for leftist activism. Starting at an early age, Swartz had an interest in copy right and public access. This can be seen with his involvement with creative commons at the age of 15. Later in his life, creating and enabling public access to scholarly and legal documents became a priority for Swartz. Swartz efforts brings up the debate for what is called “open access,” as he and other constitutions believed most, if not all, academic journals
The World Wide Web started as an idea that focused around the government’s need to communicate if there was a real war. In 1964 the Cold War was at its peak, the Advanced Researched Projects Agency, or ARPA began researching and developing a way to get computers to “communicate with each other,” this is how it all started (The Internet's History and Development). The government scientists who were, “developing networking technology in the 1960's knew that what they were building would be far bigger than themselves; nobody, however, could have predicted the explosion in Internet access and interest in the past several years” (The Internet’s History and Development).
Aaron Swartz is a computer genius, I have no doubt about that. I mean by the age of 13, he won the Arsdigita prize. Furthermore,he believed in the free access of public record online. Henceforth, in 2006 he made information available and free while working at Wired magazin. In 2007 he also united with Simon Carstensen and build a site where anyone can create a simple site. This is an Inductive Argument because all the information shows that Aaron Swartz was a computer genius and believed in freedom of information online.
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For everyone in the business world, Mark Zuckerberg is a well-known name to them. He is an undeniably young, successful businessman. However, Zuckerberg is also a very successful leader in his own company as well as in the world. His impact from creating Facebook is more than just impressive. Zuckerberg created the social media website where people get connected virtually and led the company to incredible success. Zuckerberg’s leadership style can be seen with inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and idealized influence. With all the aforementioned components, Mark Zuckerberg is a great example of transformational leadership.
Free and easy access is a means of distributing intellectual study that breaks from the traditional subscription model of academic publishing. It has the potential to greatly quicken the pace of scientific discovery, encourage innovation and develop education by reducing barrier to access. Open access moves the costs of publishing so that readers, practitioners and researchers obtain the content at minimum or free of cost. Open access incorporates a range of components such as readership, reuse, copyright, posting and machine readability. Open access benefits users, research institutions and society as a whole by providing accessibility through which everyone can read and use the free publications online, full re-use rights where Intellectual wo...
Samuelson, Pamela. "The Digital Rights War." The Presence of Others: Voices and Images that call for Response. Ed. Andrea A. Lunsford & John J. Ruszkiewicz. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin's, 2000. 315-320.
The internet, initially developed by researchers at MIT and UCLA, had first purposes as a communications system between participating Universities. Walt Howe, Director of Libraries at Babson College, explains that the use of the system was limited to engineers, scientists, and those with the complex knowledge of computer operating systems. Because of the complexity involved many attempted to create a more user efficient system, one that home users could adopt. The most modern and user friendly system was pioneered around 1991 at University of Minnesota as a tool to access files and information local...
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