Welcome to the Corporate Power in New Media blog!
The contributors to this blog are Brendan Gilbert, Ari Goldman, Eamon Kelleher, and Colleen Krieger. We are seniors at Cornell University who are currently enrolled in COMM 320: New Media and Society. We are completing a class project that explores various issues surrounding new media. Our blog’s purpose is to discover the role of corporate power in new media and to pose an argument about the significance of that corporate power. We will examine four new media forms: websites/social networking, mashup (remix), videos, and video games/second life. Through research and analysis we aim to uncover the corporate influence (such as copyright regulation and advertising) within each of these new media forms.
We have organized our site in an entry format. The posts range from exploratory to definitions of corporate power and new media to discussions of each new media form we have chosen as it relates to corporate power. Our resources can be found in a page that is accessible by a link in the sidebar. A blogroll, category links, tags, and a reader poll are also located in the sidebar.
We invite you to provide feedback through comments and responses to our posts.
Enjoy,
Brendan, Ari, Eamon, and Colleen
