Polyvore Research Paper Draft

Polyvore: The Win-Win in Multimedia Authorship (Draft)

The most successful part of my draft? I would say the intro is very strong and my description of the relationship between users, businesses and the web page addresses the strengths of this harmonious multimedia authorship. I ran into a weak spot while trying to get my draft to transition into copyright law and how Polyvore fit into that as well as contrasting Polyvore with negative websites. I feel like I'm just writing a description of each website I've Diigo'ed and relating it to Polyvore rather than extending applicability right now.

Polyvore Research Diagram

My Polyvore Google Docs Research Diagram can be found here.

Polyvore Research Presentation

I just figured out how to display my Polyvore slideshow directly on my blog!
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Research Blog Update

I have progressed in my Diigo bookmarking to finding good and bad examples of multimedia authorship issues. The best examples make a point to address the author or author's limitations, and to have that information available in an easy to find, easy to read link available on the homepage of the website. They provide the user with satisfaction that their contribution was appreciated, the business with promotion of their material and the website as the hub interaction center. Now I need to understand the legal basis for all of this and the applicability of the good principles for the not so good websites.

My Diigo references for my multimedia authorship research can be found here.

Polyvore Reflection

I feel like I'm running out of things to add about this topic. I'm not sure what the research proposal needs or what direction I should go with it, and I would really appreciate some feedback. I allude to applicability in the research proposal of this website to other websites, but I don't think I can just figure all that out and still have a good research proposal with the amount of time I'm given to do this. I want to keep the research centered on Polyvore and theorize to applicability of this website's standards on other websites. Either way, some input would be nice..