Ashley Graff's List: English 303 Multimedia Annotated Bib. List

This site does exactly what it sounds like it does, spy on people. It uses a Twitter public timeline to randomly choose people and their statuses to be displayed on this site. The statuses are updated on the site instantly. This site not only displays people's statuses but shows you where they are posting from around the world by using a globe. It goes to the country where they are from, displaying their name and their picture, and then posting their status below with the rest of the statuses. I think it is ridiculous and somewhat creepy that there is a site literally spying on people and what they are saying. There is no rhyme or reason for this site, such as thelonestpoemintheworld.com has, but only to display statuses for people to watch and read. This site definitely deals with multimedia authorship because it is using other people's statuses to create a larger piece of work, that being the entire site. What if I didn't want thousands of people to know what I just wrote and where I was posting from? This site is great one to take a look back on when writing my paper about Twitter and Multimedia authorship.

This is an article that explains just how powerful Twitter is becoming. It explains what Twitter was created for and how people are using Twitter to their advantage. It explains how Twitter gives us the ability to know vital (or not so vital) information in real-time. Twitter is the epitome of just how far technology is advancing. This article really looks into the idea of how businesses can use Twitter to thrive. Twitter may help businesses advertise their company, or keep clients up to date with necessary information. Living in our fast-paced world makes us as individuals want to receive vital information as quickly as possible. Twitter allows us to read messages fast because they can only be 140characters or less. The idea of a short message is appealing to many. This article did a great job at explaining the positives of Twitter and how Twitter is a great social-networking site. This site will be helpful to my research because it gives me information containing why people use Twitter and how it can benefit people. This is going to be important to address when talking about Twitter.

This site is set up exactly like Google.com, but instead of searching the entire web it only searches Twitter messages. The purpose of this site (if there is one) is to type in whatever word or phrase you want and it will search through thousands of Twitter messages and bring up the ones where your words appear in. For example if I type the word "school" into the Twitter Search, it will bring back anyone's status that currently has the word school in it. This site also represents multimedia authorship because it taking people's tweets and allowing others to read them freely without knowing whose status it is. I never asked for anyone to search a word and to use my tweet just because it comes up on this search engine. I would like read about the terms of use in the Twitter website and if it does state that your tweets are open to anyone, because I think it is truly crazy how there are websites designed to spy and allow others to read what you are typing.

I first read this story in the DA and it was very intriguing. A hospital in Iowa has allowed surgeons to start "tweeting" the process of their surgery to the patient's family members. It is an easy and efficient way to follow a patient's progress as they go under the knife. The patient's family in this article tracked the developments from a laptop computer in the hospital's waiting room. One of the daughter-in-laws even kept tabs from work. The surgeon sent more than 300 tweets over more than three hours from a computer outside the operating room. Over 700 people followed them, some even asking questions. This is a great way to get glimpse into an actual operating room. Iowa has not been the first hospital to use Twitter, others include Children's Medical Center in Dallas, which tweeted in May when a father donated a kidney to his son, and Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, where officials have tweeted about several surgeries since January. My question is, is could I use the "tweets" this surgeon is sending and write my own article about the operation? Are the surgeons' tweets copyrighted?

This is a website that Sandy introduced to me. Basically this man named Dene Grigar, created a 24 experimental project where he asked people to send him "tweets" to create one large collaborative story. With their permission, he was allowed to copy and paste specific "tweets" and arrange them into a novel on his "Project Blog". Over 85 stories were submitted by over 25 participants from five countries. This website and this project is the perfect example of collaborative art using multimedia.

This website is just an example of a writer who is currently releasing his novel on Twitter, by way of tweeting 140 characters at a time. He compares releasing his novel on Twitter as the equivalent to watching a short clip of a movie, before deciding to buy the entire thing. He feels by releasing 140 characters at a time, it will grab people's attention. This website demonstrates how not only is, Matt Stewart, releasing his novel via Twitter, but how other authors are deciding to do the same thing. Is releasing a novel via Twitter going to be the same as releasing the actual publish book in the bookstores? Does Stewart, along with the various other authors have rights to each of their "tweets"? How easy would it be to steal Stewart's novel, by simply copying and pasting all of his tweets into one large document. Is it novel protected from someone else stealing his ideas?

This website is basically just an article describing how an editor named Nick Douglas compiled together a book called, "Twitter Wit". This book is a collection of Twitters who tweeted him their wittiest "tweet". The wittiest tweets will be seen in this book. This article gives a small description about the book while also explaining how the contributors were given no royalties for having their "tweets" published, just given a free copy of the book. This brings up the question of, who does then get credit? Will editor Douglas and HarperCollins receive a profit off others "tweets", while the actual contributors receive nothing? These are the questions I will be focusing on for my research.

This site basically describes why people use Twitter and what it can do with Twitter. This is a very easy website to navigate. It provides detailed information in an easy and readable way. It goes on to explain the Twitter termionology which will be vital information to have when discussing Twitter. This will help me with my research project because I am going to use the correct terms when referring to Twitter so people can follow and understand what I am saying.

Twitter has become one of the next biggest things to hit the multimedia world. It's a free social-networking site where people read and send messages, much like sending out a mass text message. People can access Twitter via the website or on their phones. This is a site that features all of WVU's Twitters that people can "follow". Examples include WVUNewsFeed, WVU SportsBuzz, Coach Bill Stewart, and so on. This site will be useful for my research project because it provides me with real-life examples of people using Twitter. I will need these examples when writing my essay.

This article studied how students, professors, and graduate instructors feel about using multimedia in large lecture halls. Over half of the students reported that multimedia in the classroom stimulated their interest in the subject. This article explains how more and more technology/multimedia is being used to teach students. I bookmarked this site early on in this semester to get me thinking about just how popular multimedia technology is becoming. It is so relevant in our society that professors have even incorporated various forms of multimedia into their lessons.

This is an article I got off of Google Scholar. This article explains a study that was conducted that examined Social-Networking sites and the use of friends. Social-networking sites are designed to help us keep in contact and interact with people we know. However, this study reveals how the more "friends" one has, the less they interact with them. This article looks at just how many people we do use social-networking sites to acutally interact with on a daily basis. Twitter is used in this study to examine how many "followers" people have but how many of them are thier actual friends. This will be a useful site for my project because it examines who uses Twitter and why.