#unit response 1

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For the unit one response I focused on the new privacy policy on Instagram. I wanted to pose the question, Will you remain an Instagram user?. In this video it revisits the first comments about the Instagram privacy policy and then discusses the second release that Instagram made hoping to gain the trust of it’s users back. 

Lastly, I think this is a hilarious spoof on how we use Instagram, and how trite all of the photo shares have become. 

This is one of my favorite videos about Instagram and photography's journey. I suggest watching 5:10 through 7:00, at a minimum. 

This article discusses the absurdity of the concept of putting an iPhone in the stomach of a stuffed animal. 

This clip is to portray the utopian ideals that surrounded the first computers before the internet. It examines the functions of a computer that we often take for granted but would be considered, back then, revolutionary.   

This is the finished product of what John Green is able to sell to other fans based on the painting and poster designed by Nica. This is an example of how copyright infringement need not be met by pure hostility and adversarial attitudes. Through collaboration and compromise all parties benefit.

In this video John Green explains how fan art from his 2012 best-selling novel "The Fault in Our Stars" spurred him to track down the creators and sell the work, allowing all three involved parties to get a cut of the profits. This relates to my subject of common/counter discourse, copyright law, and the potential of internet communities to reinvent content distribution.