Helene Hegemann’s 2010 debut novel, Axolotl Roadkill, is about a troubled 16-year-old girl, Mifti, who has been living by herself in the grime and creative confusion of Berlin since the death of her mother. “What sets Mifti apart is her hypersensitivity and her open, questioning curiosity about an older generation that doesn’t seem to be…
5: Remixing Book Covers to Talk About Racism
The Baby-Sitters Club was a YA book series released in 1986 that followed a group of 11-13 year old girls running a babysitting service in a fictional town in Connecticut. In book #56, titled Keep Out, Claudia!, one of the girls, Claudia, who is Asian-American, is denied a job babysitting for a white family. After another girl…
5: Insane: A Tale of Remixing Gone Wrong
Last summer, I worked for a small amusement center called Funplex, located in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. It had a decent playlist consisting of a wide variety of music, but there was one song in particular that caught my ear each time it played. It started with the intro to “No Rain” by Blind Melon,…
5: The NRA and Parks and Rec – The GIF Battle
I was scrolling though my FaceBook feed one day when an article caught my eye. It was a Buzzfeed article titled: “”Parks and Rec” Stars Slammed NRA for Using a Leslie Knope GIF.” I love the show “Parks and Rec”, and wanted to see what this was all about, so I clicked on the link….
5) The Lunar Chronicles as a Remix
The Lunar Chronicles are “futuristic retellings of classic fairy tales” (Meyer). Throughout her five novels, Marissa Meyer, a New York Times bestselling author, remakes the lives of four princesses: Cinderella (Cinder), Rapunzel (Cress), Red Riding Hood (Scarlet) and Snow White (Winter), as well as the Evil Queen (Queen Levana). In the first novel, the reader…
5: Pop Danthology, Remixing, and Copyright Culture
One of my favorite examples of remix for some time now has been the remixing of popular songs to create a mashup of the songs. Particularly, I have been watching YouTuber Daniel Kim’s “Pop Danthology” videos since the first one was created in 2010. Kim mixed between 50-90 pop songs that became popular in a…
BeautyGram
My genre is Beauty Instagrams that I refer to as BeautyGrams. The genre is Instagram accounts that have beauty related topics. In my Wiki, I focus on makeup. However, there are many subgenres within that wide genre. My most interesting finding is how popular Instagram is! It seems silly, but I never really realized the…
Do It Yourself!
While I have not had extensive time to work on my Digital Genre Wiki, I am trying my very best! That said, my genre is the DIY in all its glory. Whether its bath bombs or home improvement, the DIY has taken the internet by storm and needs to be treated as a genre same as…
4: Point and Click Horror Games
For this assignment, I’m investigating point and click games, specifically horror ones. These games vary in their ambition and quality, since most these days are indie games available in places like Steam. They’re also heavily exploration-based—after all, the only thing players can really do is “point” and “click” on their computer screen—though there are plenty…
4: Twitter Poetry
For my genre profile project, I decided to focus on the contemporary craze of Twitter poetry. Twitter poetry is a subgenre of digital poetry (much like what Molly Aiudi talks about in her post about hypertext poetry) as well as a subgenre of a rising form of writing known as Twitterature. Twitter poetry focuses on…