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		<title>I Read a Book: Greg Kot’s Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greg Kot&#8217;s Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music is a must-read for those interested in how economics combined with listener actions have led the traditional music industry to its present morass. And therefore, the subtitle should be: How the music industry decided short-term profits were more important than life-long fans.
While I prefer a more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelearnedfangirl.com&blog=3063806&post=1096&subd=thelearnedfangirl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TLF at New Music Seminar: Chicago</title>
		<link>http://thelearnedfangirl.com/2009/10/08/tlf-at-new-music-seminar-chicago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[1000 true fans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was lucky enough to score a guest invitation to the New Music Seminar thanks to social media goddess Leah Jones of Natiiv Arts and Media. Being a semi-professional fangirl/full &#8211; on professional social media person I was curious to go to this event, knowing the upheaval that the music industry is in the midst of, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelearnedfangirl.com&blog=3063806&post=1087&subd=thelearnedfangirl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Blogger V. Obarski: Gender and gaming</title>
		<link>http://thelearnedfangirl.com/2009/09/30/guest-blogger-v-obarski-gender-and-gaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[gaming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A (admittedly late &#8211; sorry!) recap of last summer&#8217;s Gen Con from guest blogger V. Obarski. Thanks!
Like many women who attend gaming convention Gen Con, I was introduced to gaming through my husband. But I&#8217;ve also attended for more than 10 years, which I believe gives me some solid street cred among the geek set. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelearnedfangirl.com&blog=3063806&post=1077&subd=thelearnedfangirl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Commercial versus Non Commercial use?</title>
		<link>http://thelearnedfangirl.com/2009/09/24/commercial-versus-non-commercial-use/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to the difficult line determining what is commercial and non-commercial use of copyrighted materials, Creative Commons has recently completed a study regarding this issue &#8212; with surveys of both content creators and users (PDF full report here). This study has lots of interesting  information for the fan-creative-remix community.
The study&#8217;s findings include that
Many group participants [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelearnedfangirl.com&blog=3063806&post=955&subd=thelearnedfangirl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I read some books: Copyright Blues</title>
		<link>http://thelearnedfangirl.com/2009/09/14/i-read-some-books-copyright-blues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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This was supposed to be a book review of William Patry&#8217;s new book, Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars. However, while reading this book, I kept thinking back to Mark Helprin&#8217;s Digital Barbarism. Patry looks over the history of copyright and how we got to the place we are at &#8212; where many ignore copyright, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelearnedfangirl.com&blog=3063806&post=1064&subd=thelearnedfangirl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Copyright Hall of Janus? : Harvard University’s Two-Faced Approach to Copyright</title>
		<link>http://thelearnedfangirl.com/2009/08/31/copyright-hall-of-janus-harvard-universitys-two-faced-approach-to-copyright/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thelearnedfangirl.com/?p=1061</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Harvard University recently has taken two very divergent approaches to copyright. I commend Harvard on the one hand for their open access policy, and on the other hand, I am shocked by a complete disregard for generally socially accepted standards of fair use.
Last year, Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Law School, and Kennedy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelearnedfangirl.com&blog=3063806&post=1061&subd=thelearnedfangirl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing TLF Guest Bloggers!</title>
		<link>http://thelearnedfangirl.com/2009/08/19/introducing-tlf-guest-bloggers/</link>
		<comments>http://thelearnedfangirl.com/2009/08/19/introducing-tlf-guest-bloggers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So for the past few months here at The Learned Fangirl, we&#8217;d been mulling over inviting guest bloggers to join us and chime in on social media/political economy/cultural studies/fangirl issues that were important to them. We decided to ask around and rounded up a small group of friends and like-minded compatriots to share their thoughts.
So [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelearnedfangirl.com&blog=3063806&post=1050&subd=thelearnedfangirl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ethics of Studying Social Media and Online Communities</title>
		<link>http://thelearnedfangirl.com/2009/08/19/the-ethics-of-studying-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thelearnedfangirl.com/?p=1047</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After the horrible nightmare that was Loyola professor Dr. David Myers&#8217; study in the City of Heroes online community, I started thinking about the ethical challenges that face researchers wanting to do studies using virtual environments &#8211; massively-multiplayer games, forums, social networking spaces like Facebook or Twitter, even blogs.  
They are very tempting environments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelearnedfangirl.com&blog=3063806&post=1047&subd=thelearnedfangirl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I read a book: A bitchen read: Frederick Kohner’s Gidget</title>
		<link>http://thelearnedfangirl.com/2009/08/01/i-read-a-book-a-bitchen-read-frederick-kohners-gidget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, there may be another Gidget remake &#8212; the type that stars Miley Cyrus or other starlets of her ilk in a &#8220;fun on the beach&#8221; movie. Before Gidget became shorthand for cheesy beach party movies, it was a book, based on a real surfer girl, Kathy, the daughter of the author. The original [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelearnedfangirl.com&blog=3063806&post=1037&subd=thelearnedfangirl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ownage, Licensing, and Pwnage: The Kindle and 1984</title>
		<link>http://thelearnedfangirl.com/2009/07/25/ownage-licensing-and-pwnage-the-kindle-and-1984/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
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With a license, do you own the e-book?
Recently, Amazon.com deleted electronic books written by George Orwell back from customers&#8217; Kindles, including 1984. While Amazon did return the money for purchase, customers were upset that something they &#8220;owned&#8221; was removed. Amazon explained that it  deleted these e-books because they  didn&#8217;t have the rights to sell the book in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelearnedfangirl.com&blog=3063806&post=1020&subd=thelearnedfangirl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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