During the first week of class, we learned that a remix is when someone takes something and altars it to fit their own work. In today’s society, technology has allowed us to successfully create remixes more than ever before. You can trace almost any piece of work back to another piece that was also remixed from something else. It almost never ends. The definition of a remix has changed over these past few years because it’s so much easier to make a remix now than in the past. Artists can sample music for a split second and that is already considered a remix. In Johnson-Eilola and Selber’s concept, they showed us how assemblages relate to remixes. Like remixes, an assemblage can take words from another person, and just replace a few words with your own. Under most circumstances, this can be considered plagiarism. The point of their paper was to remove that point of view and think of assemblage as a better way for students to learn. Instead of teachers forcing students to give credit to someone “above them”, they can claim these ideas as their own and potentially influence them to learn a bit more. For example, they referenced a website that posted templates for anyone to use and edit for their own website. It was easy to see how much they were different from each other, but at the same time how they each kept the resemblance of the original template. Overall, remixes and assemblages have proven to create work that can keep influencing more work. In order for us to make things better, we need to learn to build off of other things.
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