Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kohrs, Dean Allen

Titel

Repurposing Professor Campbell: A qualitative study concerning new media, intellectual property and scholarship

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

1998

Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine, by means of oral history, the ramifications new media: radio, television, film, videotape and computers, had upon the scholarship of the mythologist Joseph Campbell. These oral histories and their analyses comprise a case study which is enveloped within three pertinent ideas. (1) America's cultural and legal constructions of intellectual property have undergone drastic revision over the last forty years; (2) this change was in part necessitated by the development of powerful new information technologies which are increasingly interconnected; (3) all intellectual properties, especially properties consisting of multiple media, are in part a result of the human interactions between the personalities involved in their creation. It was concluded that the use of these new media greatly proliferated the dissemination of Campbell's scholarship. Unfortunately the transfer of Campbell's scholarship into multiple media was too often exercised without any reflection as to how his scholarship was being reformed to fit the medium. It was also concluded that this qualitative study could and should serve as a cautionary tale to other academics who are considering reproposing their own scholarship into digital multimedia.