Online Music

The Internet is revolutionizing how we access and listen to music. The development of MP3s, or digital song files, has made it easy to download virtually any piece of music online.

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Music

Music is one of the most popular and powerful forms of media that kids and teens consume. In this section we tackle issues such as access to questionable content in music and file sharing.

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From Passport to MyWorld: MediaSmarts extends digital literacy skills to secondary students

Submitted by Matthew Johnson on 29 Mar 2011.

Someone encountering the Internet for the first time might be forgiven for assuming it was created specifically for teenagers. Indeed, the Internet could reasonably be said to have been aging backwards since its birth – the domain first of scientists and the military, then of university students in the 1990s and now children and teenagers. 

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Authenticating Information, Cyberbullying, Digital Citizenship, Internet & Mobile, Journalism & News, Music, Online Gambling, Online Hate, Privacy, Professional Development, Resources

Pop Quiz

Submitted by Matthew Johnson on 11 Jun 2010.

People who make their living producing images, such as photographers, stylists, publicists, directors and pop idols, learn how to use those signs to convey the impression they want to make. Although teen girls who are trying to send a signal to their circle of friends and pop music producers who are trying to send a signal to an audience of millions are working on different scales, the principle is very much the same. Depending on your audience, you need to tailor the signals you send out very carefully. Even your age can have a certain amount of wiggle room when dressed in the right signs.

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Body Image, Marketing & Consumerism, Media Production, Music, Resources

Guest blog: Music and youth identity

Submitted by Matthew Johnson on 30 Mar 2010.

The famous comedian Bill Cosby once said, “Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.” Cosby was certainly correct about the power of music, but he may have failed to recognize that characteristics youth become ‘passionate’ about may not actually be separate from their musical affiliations.

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DIY Media: Mashups, fan movies, and machinima

Submitted by Matthew Johnson on 14 Apr 2008.

This is the second in a series of columns looking at the history and future of Web 2.0. In the last instalment of this series we examined the origins of the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) ethic and some of the issues around the definition of “user-created content.” Turning from the theoretical to the practical, we’ll now take a look at just what is actually out there, and begin to examine some of the ethical and legal implications.

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Internet & Mobile, Media Production, Movies, Music, Video Games

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