blog post 3

Before this class and before I read this article when I heard the word remix I automatically thought of of mashed up songs. It never occurred to me that essentially everything in life is a remix. Whether it be a book basing its plot off a previously published book or an invention getting improvements everything is just a transformed version of something.

Johnson-Eilola and Selber’s concept of assemblage is based on the idea that assemblages are built on from remixes. For example, Johndan's book "Datacloud: toward a new theory of online work" is remixed and transformed from earlier knowledge. He took the ideas of previous people and advanced them and assembled them into a book. Peter England took Johndan's remixed ideas and literally, physically reassembled them. Hence, an assemblage is built on remixes.
In our culture today we draw a fine line between plagiarism and originality. We define plagiarism very broadly, whether it is blatant copy and paste or taking someone's idea and transforming it anyone can make a case against or for plagiarism. When it comes to high school plagiarism is simply copying homework or writing a research paper without proper citation. College, on the other hand, is a different story. Plagarism in college can be defined as taking someone's idea. The hard part, however, is how does one prove plagiarism if it's not directly obvious such as copy and paste. Therefore, the line between plagiarism and originality can be blurred or skewed depending on the situation.
A lot of this article confused me just because the wording was hard to read. I had to read it several times to comprehend it.