My Books

a word-image video

The Child, by Antoine Bardou-Jacquet raises all sorts of interesting questions about representation, narration and the relationship between words and images – every image in the piece actually consists of letters or words. You could definitely call The Child electronic literature, and […]

remix culture: copyright

Have you seen Eric Faden’s A Fair(y) Use Tale? It uses clips from a couple of dozen Disney movies to explain copyright and fair use: I found the video in a very useful teaching resource for discussing copyright in relation to remixes […]

authorship, Foucault, Barthes and remix culture

Neva’s post about Foucault’s “What is an Author” raises an interesting question. She notes that Foucault writes that “an anonymous text posted on a wall probably has a writer – but not an author”. How does that fit with remix and collaborative […]

the gutenberg parenthesis and cultural differences

Today’s Remix Culture class is about the Gutenberg Parenthesis: a cultural realm where it is felt that cultural products (including stage plays and student essays) should be original, independent, autonomous compositions — the individual achievement and the individual property of those who […]

remix culture and the kuleshov effect

Remix Culture students are finishing up their 250 word project descriptions and their video previews, so today’s class is mostly going to be a workshop were we can all get on with it and raise any issues that have come up. I […]

working on our annotated bibliography and on our project ideas

Here’s the plan for today’s Remix Culture class: Look at our overall research project outline. Does this make sense? Are there important things we’re missing? Edit. Talk a bit about how to get from idea to research proposal Discuss our annotated bibliography. […]

remix culture: exploring our ideas

For today’s class students have made the first drafts of their video “trailers” and have an idea what they want their projects to be about. We’re going to look at the videos, and discuss ideas. We’ll also begin putting ideas together – […]

remix culture: second class

A Netvibes page for our Remix Culture course is in progress – obviously there aren’t many blog posts or Diigo links yet, but these things will feed in as we go. There’s a “wall” thing where you can leave comments – feel […]