When I first saw this blog prompt the first thing I thought of was memes. The definition of a meme is: “an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social media” (“Meme”). Keeping that in mind, I thought of “spreadability”,…
The short story has been around for millennia, and the way it is distributed and circulated has changed. At first it was the switch from oral tradition to written text. Now, with the invention of the Internet and digital technologies, short stories can take on almost limitless forms. A short story can be a digital…
My personal career goal is to become a writer for movies and television, but honestly, I’ll settle for anything visual media related. This is what inspired my ideas for my second digital media-based project. For my remix project, I’ve deceived to create a compilation video using clips from television shows, movies and interviews focused on…
I’ve always loved fiction, especially young adult fiction, and the circulation, delivery, and spreadability of young adult fiction has changed especially with the digital revolution. “Why Media Spreads” talks about the spreadability of media with technology and how the circulation of said media has changed, as Vivian mentioned, to a “top down bottom up” instead…
Well, we’re here again. In their introduction titled Why Media Spreads, Henry Jenkins, Joshua Green, and Sam Ford describe a hybrid form of circulation, “…where a mix of top-down and bottom-up forces determine how material is shared across and among cultures in far more participatory (and messier) ways.” (1). This mix of forces can be seen throughout…
I was initially drawn to prose poetry because of the way it intersects the power of language and the beauty of poetic techniques. As described by poets.org, “While it lacks the line breaks associated with poetry, the prose poem maintains a poetic quality, often utilizing techniques common to poetry, such as fragmentation, compression, repetition, and…
Circulation, according to Henry Jenkins, Joshua Green, and Sam Ford in “Why Media Spreads,” refers to the idea that “top-down and bottom-up forces determine how material is shared across and among cultures in far more participatory (and messier) ways” (1). This concept is particularly important within the industry I want to work in someday—the newspaper…
I used to think of nonfiction as solely consisting of autobiographies and textbooks. (Ok, I knew of other examples in the genre, but these are the main examples that came to mind.) However, after taking Introduction to Nonfiction this year I realized that I really enjoy the other side of nonfiction, such as the Personal…
Creative Commons greatly confused me at first. The only result I could find at first was images. I searches the word “crabs” and got 26 pages of pictures of crabs; nothing more, and nothing less. Eventually, I navigated to the advanced search feature. I unchecked results from their photograph database, which limited my options to…
For my first idea, I was thinking of remixing either a screenplay that I wrote or a short story/play in the public domain into a digital choose your own adventure story. I would create a variety of different places for the story to branch off in different direction. The purpose of this remix would be…