the gap between

Life and Art

Remix Culture for Learning

Erin Reilly

Research Director

Project New Media Literacies

USC Annenberg School for Communication

ebreilly @twitter

www.newmedialiteracies.org

Retroactive I - Robert Rauschenberg

One in four online teens remix

content they find onlinelike songs,

text, or imagesand remix them into

their own artistic creations

Remix in Music

Audio Recording Software

Reason

ProTools

Logic

Fruity Loops

mashups

http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/newmedialiteracies:1000/videos/505-mashups-amp-remixes

Remix in Music

remix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltAGuuru7Q

DJ Culture

http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/newmedialiteracies:1000/videos/369-what-is-a-dj

Editing Software

iMovie for Mac

Windows Moviemaker for PC

http://jaycut.com

no software needed

Remix in Video

Political Remix

Machinima

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK54WRu0jW4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J_FkP9OVE4

Recut

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUk7hb5HdE0

Fan Vidding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNRjzUB7Afo

the participation gap

Shifting Landscape

projectNML connectcommunicatecreatecollaborate

collective intelligence

networking

negotiation

judgment

play

performance

simulation

multitasking

distributed cognition

transmedia navigation

appropriation

http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/newmedialiteracies:1058/videos/1214-the-new-media-literacies

projectNML connectcommunicatecreatecollaborate

appropriation

- the ability to meaningfully sample

and remix media content

The creator must consider

how the original source is

related to a new context.

To develop a

remix...

http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-profile-jalen-video

Source: Living and Learning with New Media

Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project Nov 2008

USC and UC, Berkeley

Where do I get started?

www.newmedialiteracies.org/library/

CREATE ...a production of new creative forms of learning

http://www.newmedialiteracies.org/library/#/media/253

Expressing Characters Challenge

Concept in context: Demonstrate the core concept, skill, or idea at play in the world.

CREATE ...a production of new creative forms of learning

How would Jay Gatsby speak?

What if Jay Gatsby hadnt taken the blame for Myrtles death, how would the others act?

What would each of them write in 140 characters over a couple of days of storytelling,

especially if this story were of todays American Dream instead of the 1920s?

http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/5354-6b-shawna-on-adaptation

Conservative in Content

Radical in Approach

Henry Jenkins, Expert Voices

Whats essential to the original source?

What matters most

to you?

What can be transferred to a different medium?

Reading a Remix

1.What constitutes the primary source material?

2.What is the media form of the remix?

3. What is the context of the remix?

4. What elements of the primary source material are being remixed?

5. Are the works of the same genre or different ones? How do you know?

6. What techniques are deployed in reworking the original material?

7. What is the intended purpose of the remix?

8.How does the remix build from, add to, or alter the cultural meaning of

the original work?

Activity in Teachers Strategy Guide: Reading in a Participatory Culture

ccMixter (found at http://ccmixter.org)

Total Recut (found at http://www.totalrecut.com/index.php)

Political Remix Video (found at http://www.politicalremixvideo.com/)

Organization of Transformative Works

(found at http://transformativeworks.org/projects/vidding-history)

Project New Media Literacies (found at http://projectnml.ning.com)

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