Kendra Mack

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Westford, MA

Kendra is a Red Hatter working in Channel Partner Marketing. Outside strategizing Web experiences for partners, she loves working on research and writing projects about media and culture topics. She studied Communication and IT at the University of NH, and you can follow her on Twitter. Kendra’s always on the lookout for good reads, pursuing her quest of being a lifelong learner – so send cool blogs, articles, and books her way!

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The participatory nature of the Internet strengthens fan communities

Whether the big media producers like it or not, digital technologies have made it easier than ever for popular culture fans to create remixes or derivative works from their…

How to build a sustainable nonprofit the open source way

The challenges and perks of bringing open source to the enterprise

Download the free All Things Open interview series eBook Steven Grandchamp has more than 30 years of experience in the software industry, serving in executive roles at four…

Why do we share and what is the value?

It's not news that popular media have undergone significant changes due to participatory digital platforms. We tweet. We connect. We comment. Above all, we share. And the…

Collaborative creeps for sharing and scaring

Internet memes—those bite-sized, ephemeral cultural artifacts that are shared and remixed over the Web —seem to be evermore pervasive online and offline . Many of them feature…

If you want a culture of collaboration, you need to accept the LOLCats too

Why collective authorship is awesome for pop culture entertainment

What do you think when hearing the term collective authorship? Wikipedia or open source software might first come to mind. These are collaboratively-created products and…

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KendraMack

29 Jan 2014

The participatory nature of the Internet strengthens fan communities

Awesome! Thanks for sharing and using CC licensing!

KendraMack

10 Sep 2012

Why collective authorship is awesome for pop culture entertainment

Thanks Bryan for sharing your expertise! I'm a Foucauldian novice, and your clarifications are fantastic. I bet a whole book could be (or already is) written on Foucault's author function as it applies to open source code!