A
Flying toasters all the way down.
For 2023 Fair Use Week, University of Virginia professor Kevin Driscoll offers a thoughtful essay about how his students engage with an iconic piece of computing history: the screen saver collection After Dark.
The After Dark exercise is one of my favorites because it bridges the social and technical dimensions of media studies. Students journey from the manipulation of pixels and code to the cultural significance of a computer program that works only when you don’t.
And yet, this project is only possible thanks to the robust protections of fair use.
Abandonware "After Dark"—How Fair Use Powers Media Studies
[thetaper.library.virginia.edu]
Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.
Loading comments
Getting the conversation ready...
Most Popular
Most Popular
- Tesla driver using Full Self-Driving struck and killed a man crossing I-80
- Trump says Sundar Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean
- The iPhone Duo is a messy, expensive, good time
- Bill Gates says to prepare for 20 years of ‘tumultuous’ AI disruption
- Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who cares
