Post at least two books related to your topic including citations and an annotation summarizing each book (1-2 sentences) and how you plan to use it in your research project (2-3 sentences).


Peer to Peer and the music industry: The criminalization of sharing.


Summary: "This penetrating and informative book provides readers with the perfect systematic critical guide to the file-sharing phenomenon. Combining inter-disciplinary resources from sociology, history, media and communication studies and cultural studies, Matthew David unpacks the economics, psychology, and philosophy of file-sharing. It fuses a deep knowledge of the music industry and the new technologies of mass communication with a powerful perspective on how multinational corporations operate to monopolize markets, how international and state agencies defend property, while a global multitude undermine and/or reinvent both."


How Will I Use It: I plan on using certain information in the book for my research project. This book seem like it has several good facts and statistics in it. thought this will not be my only resource if I was looking for a book to help me this would be a good choice.


Pop song piracy: Disobedient music distribution since 1929


Summary: "The music industry’s ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music. Starting with music publishers’ efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, Barry Kernfeld’s Pop Song Piracy details nearly a century of disobedient music distribution from song sheets to MP3s."


How Will I Use It: I plan on using certain information in the book for my research project. This book seem like it has several good facts and statistics in it. thought this will not be my only resource if I was looking for a book to help me this would be a good choice.



Cite:

David, Matthew. Peer to Peer and the Music Industry: The Criminalization of Sharing. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2010. Print.

Kernfeld, Barry Dean. Pop Song Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution Since 1929. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Print

Monday

After reading the relevant articles in this week's folder, and keeping in mind the discussion we’ve had in class about scholarly information, describe the peer-review process. In your response, answer the following questions:
-Why is peer-review important?
-What are some ways that you can tell if an article is peer-reviewed, or scholarly?
-When do you want to use peer-reviewed research in your work?
-Also think about in what ways YOU engage in informal and/or formal peer-review in your personal and researching life

Peer reviewed research can be the very reason why you get an "a" or "c" on a paper or assignment. Peer review is very important because you need someones perspective on your writing instead of your own. If you are writing a paper or doing a project you want to get constructive criticism on it so that you can better the work that you are working on. Ways that you can tell if an article is scholarly is by the author, the  audience the article is intended for, references, and the length. You would want to use peer reviewed research in your work when you are talking about certain subjects. All depending what topic you might not want to use peer reviewed research like if you were talking about the government you would want straight facts no peer review needed for your research you would not necessarily need peer reviewed research. I have not used peer review for any of my researching but for other assignments like a papers and certain projects it came in handy because I needed criticism and help on what I may have done wrong and in order to improve my work I let several people review my work.

Word Count:204

Discussing Resources

Discuss how you would use each of the types of information we discussed in class today (scholarly books, popular magazines, newspapers, government documents, encyclopedia, and scholarly journal articles) in the research project you are working on in our class.

My group is working on "piracy" issue for our project. Because of the topic we have it would be sort of difficult to use some of the listed resources above. However, I will try my best. Right off the top I would exclude scholarly books, encyclopedia, government documents, and possibly scholarly journal articles. I automatically excluded these resources because they would not have the kind of information I am trying to learn about when it comes to "piracy". On the other hand popular magazines should have some type of articles or selection in them that may talk about pirating. Whether it be from people who got caught doing such crime, or whether it's about people who are getting hurt financially because of pirating. Newspapers are another good source of research for our topic. Newspaper has been out for quite sometime now, so it should be fairly easy to track a newspaper with some information OR article about this crime. I say this because piracy isn't something that has just started. So a lot of people know about it which mean most journalists know about it to. Even though I only gave two resources listed, for my groups sake there is no better resource than the internet. This is a guaranteed way of getting the information we need for our research project.

Word Count: 221 (Not including the question at the very top.)

Topic Question& Debate

Yes I did change my research question. My research NEW research question asks "what are the positive affects of media piracy on piraters? By changing up my question I made my research question more narrow. In the begging My question was "what are the positive and negative affects of piracy on society as a whole? This question was definitely to broad and could have been and was narrowed. I decided to change my question around because this way I have a question that focuses on one specific thing and not several different points. I also changed my question because now there can be two different views on this question. Any one could agree or disagree with what I'm trying to research. It is not just a one sided question. This renewed question will lesson my chance of having extra and unneeded information for my research. To answer my research question I would most likely stick with the internet and any articles that I can find on this topic. Photos and other visual aids, with the exception of statistical graphs, would do me no good. The reason is because see piracy on a photo or movie would not help my argument at all.

THE DEBATE:
The debate was very interesting. I can honestly say that I understood where both sides are coming from. However, I think I would agree more with UWG's perspective. UWG's perspective was that you should not choose to go to an HBCU because of the long-term affects, which are: loan debt, being most likely to default on your loan which in turn keeps you from getting a credit card, house, car, and most importantly a job, and being the last result when it comes to getting hired and when you do get a job there will be a decrease in wages. UWG also argued that what you learn at an HBCU you can also learn at a Non-HBCU and that African-American students make HBCU's it is not the other way around. I highly agree with every point that UWG mad e I have no disagreements with them whatsoever. On the other side you had Clark Atlanta college. Their argument was going to and HBCU school could help you with the following: learn about your own culture, and that you could possibly prevent black on black crime because HBCU'S teach how to love your brotherhood and sisterhood. I feel like Clark Atlanta should have came up with more reasons on why choosing and HBCU is better if you're an African american student. It seemed like Clark was not fully prepared like UWG was. UWG could answer ANY question that Clark threw at them but it doesn't seem like it was the other way around. I also want to point out that the conversation got a bit heated because you could clearly see who the winning side was early on in the debate. In my opinion as well as the rest of the school UWG won because they were prepared and you could see that they took the time to research everything they needed to debate.

Topic: Piracy

My research question is How does media piracy affect people in general as a society. I personally think this is a good research question because piracy has been going on for ages. This research question is a good one because if you need to find something on the internet about it or even in book you would be able to find it with out a problem. Even though some people have their opinion about whether or not piracy is good or bad there are still facts out there that wouldn't be debatable. So far media piracy affects society in several ways. The people who commits this act normally gets fine and in some cases may get taken away and sentenced to serve time. Other people like music producers and movie directors has been loosing money ever since piracy began. I would like to research more about which directors and producers has been affected the most by piracy. This interests me because I know that that the individuals making the music and movies and big money makers. Knowing exactly how bad piracy is affecting them would be nice to know. Maybe piracy isn't that much of an affect but maybe it is. This is something I have to know more about.

Group Topic

My group decided to choose "piracy" as our topic. I feel the reason you made us chose our topic this way so that we could know the difference between a good topic and a not so good topic. When picking our topic we had tons of information to research from. It wasn't hard to find facts about i at all which makes writing or researching a our topic more easier. The most interesting aspect of the subject my group picked is the fact that so many people are stealing  from the greatest directors and producers of all times and there's almost nothing that can be done about it. Even though the law states that it's illegal and that their will be punishment there hasn't really been any real enforcement to make teens and adults stop. Even though piracy is basically another word for stealing everyone or almost everyone has engaged in this activity.