Commodification and Power Readings and Blog Post for Monday

Please read the article below from page 143 – 161 for class on Monday.

http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf

Blog Post: What do you think is the most valuable/marketable type of data? If you could own this data for yourself, what would you do with it?  Now that you have had experience with commodification; do you think that these companies are justified in how they are taking data in exchange for commodities? Make sure to elaborate why you think so.

Now think about the kinds of data that you could be putting out based on the apps/services you use. What apps/ services do you think are getting the most out of your electronic activity, and how so? What would you say is the value of your data production, and why?

Please write a 400-500 word blog post and respond to at least two other posts by Monday’s class.