I, Barack Hussein Obama: : Virtual Crowds and Participatory Politics in the 2009 Inauguration

Pundits in the mainstream media have a tendency to chastise Internet users for making their private lives public and for putting the most intimate or mundane details of their personal experiences into digital files for all to gawk at online. As a scholar of digital rhetoric, this video essay explains my fear that these practices wont be public enough now that so many people rely on corporate cloud computing to store and share photos, videos, and journal entries and avoid situations in which corporate interests may make copyright claim to intellectual property.

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News & Politics

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• inauguration
• barack obama
• swearing in
• social media
• social network sites
• copyright
• cloud computing
• digital rhetoric