In the reading, New Literacies and Social Practices of Digital Remixing, the author discusses the importance of remixing in relation to the creation of culture. I find it interesting that when discussing the idea of remixing the author discusses how we remix things in our everyday lives. The author suggests that anything we say in terms of an opinion is our way of remixing something and producing culture. Everyone has different perspectives on things. When this personal remix is brought to a conversation it creates almost a remix of the remixes, which makes up and creates our culture. I never thought of opinions being derivative of what was presented, but they are, as they are a personal spin on what you viewed/heard/etc.. Culture is really about what the people of the time do, feel, say and so on so it makes sense that our remixing of information is what creates culture.
Another interesting takeaway from the reading, New Literacies and Social Practices of Digital Remixing, is how remixing has changed over the years with the advancement of technology. The author discusses how writing is a form of remixing as we are taking words from somewhere else and putting them together to form new strings of words and make new meaning to something that already exists. When thinking about the younger generation, a lot of the text they create is digitally based, as well as, accompanied by images or video. This made me think of the rise of “meme culture” which is taking preexisting images from the internet and placing text over them to form a new meaning for the image. The author also discusses the way remixing is possible without words or sounds like through image manipulation in Photoshop. The concept of remixing can really be found anywhere from music, speech and text, to new digital forms and will continue to expand as new forms of making are discovered.
In Guide for Educators, Digital Story Production, Midge Frazel discusses how to go about teaching digital story telling. Frazel suggests that students should create their own images, rather than using stock images from online. This is because students will be more engaged when doing this, as they will have created the entirety of the project themselves and have created exactly what they wanted, rather than finding something close to what they were aiming for. An additional reason for students to create their own media is so that they will not run into any copyright issues. This is what I find the most interesting about this section, as I feel this topic is something important to discuss with students. It was not until college that I learned that everything on Google isn’t okay to be used freely. Media has different levels of restrictions, some is allowed to be used for personal purposes but not business related, some only for educational purposes, things along those lines. I think the topic of digital sourcing should be discussed regardless of if students are using found images or not so that students are informed of these rules, especially if they may decide to continue digital story telling on their own time.
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