Papers by Maramanee Olson
Born-digital media has changed, already, how copyright and authorship are seen as the internet h... more Born-digital media has changed, already, how copyright and authorship are seen as the internet has expanded and grown. It was already shifting due to things such as “fan fiction” in ‘zines, but with the mercurial nature of the internet, it has become difficult to parse the old idea of copyright with the new idea of ownership in the digital domain. And that ignores the fact that copyright and authorship have been two ideas circling one another since almost the beginning of recognizable writing. However, the digital domain has brought the issue back into the spotlight as the argument of how to deal with copyright on the internet has fairly exploded. Does it need to change, to adapt to the new realities of the born-digital medium? Is copyright itself just not as important anymore? And how does one define authorship in a world that is increasingly going anonymous?
When One Dreams in 35 mm Technicolour, Paid By the Word Science Fiction is a genre that spans med... more When One Dreams in 35 mm Technicolour, Paid By the Word Science Fiction is a genre that spans mediums, from literature to film. Arguably, it began within literature first, with "Frankenstein" and "The War of the Worlds" and the John Carter books, with sometimes dubious science standing in for actual hard scientific fact. But hidden within fantastic tales were moralistic yarns spun about the dangers of raising the dead, or the fate of one civilization against a more advanced foe; science fiction is rarely "just a story." It has carried that moral underpinning from books to film, though with questionable results; one can merely compare two stories cut from the same cloth to see how the story can change between mediums.
In "The Word for World is Forest," Ursula Le Guin tackles a range of different issues clearly ste... more In "The Word for World is Forest," Ursula Le Guin tackles a range of different issues clearly stemming from the political climate of the late 60's, and her own knowledge of anthropology. The most obvious theme, I feel, is clearly the overarching one of oppressors and Le Guin, Ursula. The Word for World is Forest. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1972.
Hawk is clearly seen as the villain, being -bloodthirsty and hostile 1 ‖ towards the apparently b... more Hawk is clearly seen as the villain, being -bloodthirsty and hostile 1 ‖ towards the apparently benevolent whites who only wanted to become peaceful farmers on the Indians' lands. The United States, wanting to expand, were finding ways to circumvent, overrule, or downright ignore former treaties that had been regarded as sacrosanct; the tribes saw the loss of three continental allies (the Spanish, French, and the British) within half a century, and had been left to deal solely with a land-hungry government. Black Hawk's own story is, however, one of a man who was not bloodthirsty, nor particularly hostile; he was simply a man who wanted to see his people remain on their ancestral lands, and who would have been just as pleased to see it accomplished through peace as well as war.
A Study of Tenochtitlan Tenochtitlan, the city that once occupied an island of the former Lake Te... more A Study of Tenochtitlan Tenochtitlan, the city that once occupied an island of the former Lake Texcoco, was the former heart of the Triple Alliance. It was a city so grand that Bernal Díaz, upon remembering years later, wrote, ¨with such wonderful sights to gaze on we did not know what to say, or if this was real that we saw before our eyes." (Díaz 216) And its grandness, though recorded in
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Papers by Maramanee Olson