Stories about low-drama people have the problem that low-drama people are boring. Stories about high-drama people have the problem that high-drama people are unsympathetic. The central challenge for character-driven fiction is to bridge this divide.
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Appearances
October 6: American University Colloquium on Scholarly Communication
Media
December 3: The Nuances of Threats on Facebook (New Yorker)
December 2: A record label says a Cox customer shared illegal files 54,489 times. Is Cox liable? (Vox)
Nov. 24: In Social-Media Era, When Is Free Speech Illegal? (Wall Street Journal)
October 24: Reversal of Fortunes: What a Recent Appeals Court Ruling Holds for Academic Fair Use (Publishers Weekly)
September 25: Facebook, OkCupid research raises new ethical questions in use of ‘big data’ (Baltimore Sun)
Papers
Three letters about the Facebook emotional manipulation study
Brief of 36 Intellectual Property and Copyright Law Professors as Amicus Curiae, ABC v. Aereo (Supreme Court)
The Cancer of the Internet, Jotwell
What to Do About Google?, Comm. of the ACM, Sept. 2013, at 28
Internet Law: Cases and Problems (3rd ed. 2013)