MAKER CULTURE – HACKER EPISODE
RYERSON UNIVERSITY
Contributor: Steph Gellatly, Patrick O'Rourke, Lauren Strapagiel, Luke Vandezande
Elevator Pitch:
Hack it to bytes.
Bored with your gaming system? Hack it. Tired of your web browser? Hack it. Trouble with your smartphone? Hack that too. Hacking is about altering the components of our digital lives and turning them into something entirely new, all in an attempt to improve functionality. That's what MakerCulture is all about too.
Users are never satisfied with technology, and now we're more able to make things work the way we want them to. In an increasingly collaborative, open source world, from hardware to software, we can come together and shape technology – we can all be makers. Take Mozilla's “Drumbeat” movement. It asks you to become an active participant, a contributing “webizen” who treats the Internet as a public resource that should be open to all.
Sub features:
Hacking's phreaky history
Nintendo DS
Android VS iPhone?
A Drumbeat to save the open web
Episode Links:
Mark Pavlidis: http://www.pavlidis.ca/
Michael Both: http://www.senygma.com/GolfCard/Home.html
Produced By:
- Daniela DiStefano
- Brittany Seki
- Lauren O’Neil
- Isabella Ssozi
- Laura Schober
Hosts: Daniela DiStefano & Lauren O'Neil
Content Summary:
In this episode, we get our hands around all types of home brewed media—from books to music. What drives people to get out the ink and paper or turn up the speakers and press record? And why does it matter? We hear from all sorts of people adding their own flavour to the media mix.
Featuring interviews with:
- Jacob Borshard of the Star Wars Uncut project
- Penn Kemp, self-publishing poet and publisher of Pendas Productions
- Miranda Elizabeth, author of Little Acorns, Edith, and Telegram Ma'am zines
- Amber Forrester, author of Culture Slut and Fight Boredom zines
- Chris Landry, creator of Kissoff! zine
- Karen Correia Da Silva, editor of Steel Bananas
- Ben H. Winters, mash-up writer of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
- Steven Chow,CEO of wonderhowto.com
- Jordan Roseman a.k.a DJ Earworm, mash-up DJ
Music Credit: All music by DJ Earworm http://djearworm.com/
Additional Links:
Broken Pencil: http://www.brokenpencil.com/
Quirk Publications: http://www.quirkclassics.com/
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