Our Space: Being a Responsible Citizen of the Digital World

Our Space is a set of curricular materials designed to encourage high school students to reflect on the ethical dimensions of their participation in new media environments. Through role-playing activities and reflective exercises, students are asked to consider the ethical responsibilities of other people, and whether and how they behave ethically themselves online. These issues are raised in relation to five core themes that are highly relevant online: identity, privacy, authorship and ownership, credibility, and participation.Our Space was co-developed by The Good Play Project and Project New Media Literacies (established at MIT and now housed at University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism). The Our Space collaboration grew out of a shared interest in fostering ethical thinking and conduct among young people when exercising new media skills

"They're all going out to something weird": workflow, legacy and metadata in the music production process

In this paper we use results from two ethnographic studies of the music production process to examine some key issues regarding how work is currently accomplished in studio production environments. These issues relate in particular to workflows and how metadata is adapted to the specific needs of specific parts of the process. We find that there can be significant tensions between how reasoning is applied to metadata at different stages of production and that this can lead to overheads where metadata has to be either changed or created anew to make the process work. On the basis of these findings we articulate some of the potential solutions we are now examining. These centre in particular upon the notions of Digital/Dynamic Musical Objects and flexible metadata shells

The Application of FRBR to Musical Works

The Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) proposes a four-tier hierarchy to describe relationships between works and their derivations. Most scholarship on FRBR and musical works has concentrated on classical music within the Western canon, and little attention has been paid to other genres of music. This study takes a bipartite content sample of both classical and non-classical musical works, investigating the issues with both using the FRBR framework. Results indicate there is a blurring of the roles within popular music that can call into question the boundaries of "work" and "expression." The examination of the pieces within the classical canon revealed many FRBR-specific relationships, but also the existence of relationships with no FRBR equivalent, and the examination of non-classical works revealed even more relationships that were either ambiguous or non-existent in the FRBR framework. The study concludes that there may be significant problems trying to tackle non-classical musical works and their mutations with a strict hierarchical model such as FRBR.Master of Science in Library Scienc

Creative Networks: Mexican Immigrant Assets in Chicago

Examines how Mexican immigrants' cultural and artistic participation in church, school, and informal arts group activities strengthens their social networking and contributes to the diversity of Chicago's communities. Includes policy recommendations

Canada’s Cultural Media Policy and Newfoundland Music on the Radio: Local Identities and Global Implications

As our access to information increases with the aid of communication technologies, there is concern about cultural homogenization. Ironically, however, in the face of globalization in the media, the local often becomes increasingly important. This study explores how Canada’s cultural policy toward the media, known as the Canadian Content regulations, has both local and global implications. I examine how Canadian Content regulations apply to radio, and how these radio regulations influence broadcasting in the St. John’s, Newfoundland radio market. Interviews with radio station personnel (e.g. DJs, program directors, music librarians) and radio listeners show that radio stations in St. John’s emphasize local (Newfoundland) music in the face of more popular Canadian and American music. In addition, this emphasis on local content ensures the survival of these stations in light of new radio broadcasting technologies such as the Internet and satellite radio. Furthermore, the act of broadcasting local music on the radio in St. John\u27s has allowed radio listening to become incorporated into listeners\u27 Newfoundland cultural traditions. In this way, the radio becomes a medium through which station personnel and listeners present their culture by showcasing music and actively preserve their culture through the broadcast of music that speaks of times past, or current issues facing Newfoundlanders. Finally, when talking about their experience listening to Newfoundland music on the radio, several themes emerged: connection between Newfoundlanders and their identity and culture, connections with other Newfoundlanders in Newfoundland, connections to Newfoundland as a place, and connections with Newfoundlanders living off the island. Generally speaking, this study shows that radio technology brings both the local to the global through Internet broadcasting, and the global to the local through satellite radio broadcasting

Winter 2011 Vol. 12 No. 2

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“Power to the People!”: Teen Experiences at a Chicago Public Library Open Mic Series

This case study looks at the experiences of young adults and librarians at a collaborative program for teens at the Chicago Public Library called OpenMike. Held at the Harold Washington Library Center and hosted by Chance the Rapper’s non-profit, SocialWorks, OpenMike is a monthly performing arts showcase event for high school students that provides a teen-only space for creative expression, networking, and community building. As a highly attended event with teens coming from all over the Chicagoland, OpenMike highlights some of the elements needed to create a successful public library program for diverse youth, including arts and digital media, mentors, peer support, and both a physical space for teens and metaphorical “safe space.” This case study adds to the growing body of literature regarding the current and future landscape of teen services in public libraries.Master of Science in Information Scienc