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Monday, 24 February 2014

Week 8: Remixing Story

Read more on the site here: http://www.remixmylit.com/



Week 8: Remixing Story
Required and Recommended Readings

Guest Lecture by Carolyn Guertin
n  Carolyn Guertin, “Handholding, Remixing and the Instant Replay: New Narratives I a Postnarrative World,” A Companion to Digital Literary Studies, ed. Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companionDLS/
n  Carolyn Guertin, "From Karaoke Culture to Vernacular Video," Excerpt available in our e-class Moodle.



Watch this Learning without Frontiers talk by Malcolm McLaren which Carolyn mentions in her chapter.



Take a look at this poster presentation from Carolyn which sums up her key ideas:



Digital Prohibition: Piracy and Authorship in New Media Art from Carolyn Guertin


This week, rather than having several key questions for you to mull over as you read and interact with the week's content, I would like to present one idea from Marsha Kinder:

"Narrative is a cognitive mode in all human societies that we use to contextualize experiences. Cultures are kept alive through open-ended narratives. Each remix of a narrative opens space for the unknown, filters out the unimportant and determines new priorities."