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Dr. David Arditi discussing how to get a theorist involved in digital research.  2019-05-08 Data Driven Discovery Symposium Full Recording from University of Texas at Arlington on Vimeo….Continue Reading DATA DRIVEN DISCOVERY

When Congress passed the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998, it was an unmitigated hand-out to the recording industry. Now the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) wants to revisit the debate to litigate the “tech industry” this time. Ironically, the tech industry was in its infancy at the passage of the DMCA: Google […]…Continue Reading RIAA WANTS TO REWRITE THE DMCA: NO! — ITAKE-OVER

VOL 3, NO 1 (2007) FAST CAPITALISM 3.1: SPECIAL ISSUE ON VIRGINIA TECH VOL 3, NO 1 (2007) FAST CAPITALISM 3.1: SPECIAL ISSUE ON VIRGINIA TECH Special Issue on Virginia Tech TABLE OF CONTENTS Full Issue PDF Front Matter PDF Editorial Board PDF About the Authors PDF SPECIAL ISSUE ON VIRGINIA TECH To: Multiple Recipients:…Continue Reading FAST CAPITALISM 3.1 ARCHIVE AVAILABLE NOW – SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTING

We are pleased to announce the debut of MusicDetour’s new website. For three years, the website used Omeka, an open source library archive that the UTA library helped design. The new site is more user-friendly than ever before. Biswa Nanda and Himat Bhanushali designed the site to allow users to navigate via album title, artist name, and genre. MusicDetour’s front page…Continue Reading MUSICDETOUR’S NEW WEBSITE!!!

FROM INQUIRY MAGAZINE, FALL 2015. On May 2, 2000, Lars Ulrich, drummer for the band Metallica, announced that his group was suing Napster, a free file-sharing service that let fans download music online. During the press conference outside Napster’s headquarters, Ulrich presented the company with a giant stack of papers listing the names of 300,000 Napster users. His…Continue Reading OUT OF TUNE: HOW RECORD COMPANIES INDUCE PANIC ABOUT MUSIC PIRACY TO INCREASE THEIR PROFITS AND EXPLOIT ARTISTS