EDUC 3610 Chapter --: Oct 14 — Remix Culture as New Literacy Practice
29 Nov 2016
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Class 6: october 14, 2016 remix culture as new literacy practice. Remix: making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy. London: bloomsbury academic, preface and (chapter 4) rw ( read/write ) revived, pp. Were it digital, we"d call it remix. The essay might be about hemingway or proust. But he built the argument by clipping quotes from the authors he was discussing. He succeeded not simply by stringing quotes together. He succeeded because the salience of the quotes, in context, made a point that his words alone would not. His selection demonstrated knowledge beyond the message of the text. The remix is meant to do something new. It would be impossible to construct and support that practice if permission were required every time a quote was made. The freedom to quote, and to build upon, the words of others is taken for granted by everyone who writes.
