https://louvenathescout.bandcamp.com/album/maia What started as a remix project to turn my poetry into songs became a dream come true. My first collected work of music. An album. Maia. In Greek mythology, Maia was the daughter of Atlas and the mother of Hermes, the god of travel. Maia is also the name of my car, a symbol…
For my Remix Project I ended up going with my third idea which was to remix the collection of images I found in the public domain. I created a Wix website to house my images, which I transformed from their original 1898 print versions into interactive photos about modern day stereotypes. The original texts are…
https://view.genial.ly/5ab95488450fab68b96de6e7/50-shades-or-metoo For my project, I remixed three texts: Fifty Shades of Grey, a #MeToo story, and a quiz I found comparing Fifty Shades to a #MeToo experience. I chose these texts to highlight the ways in which Fifty Shades does not show a healthy BDSM relationship, but rather it portrays abuse quite similar to real stories of partner…
https://sites.google.com/view/digitalpublishingremixproject/home (click the pink heart on the title slide first before continuing to the second!) For the first time in a while, I am extremely happy with a project. I spent a lot of time (probably more than I should) making this into something I would be proud of. Using Genial.ly.com, I decided to…
I’ve always thought that hearing an author read their writing out loud is the best way to understand the work. That’s why slam poetry has always had a tight hold on me, and how it has earned a prioritized place in my heart. Authors can combine the beauty and technique behind language with live performances…
Circulation carries multiple meanings within the publishing industry. In my Small Press Publishing & Editing course last semester, I was taught that circulation refers to how widely a text was distributed. One way of measuring this was how many readers were subscribed to or purchased copies of a particular edition of a publication. According to…
I was interested in the idea that Kes and several others have mentioned in their blog posts of “top-down” and “bottom-up” forces that impact the spreadability of a text, or its ability to be circulated (Jenkins et al 4). As a publishing and editing major, I was particularly interested in thinking about how these concepts of top-down and bottom-up forces…
Something that’s been a consistent trend on the internet over the past few years has been social media user’s involvement in internet challenges. Before social media really picked up, I can remember kids in my middle school rubbing erasers into their skin while they said the ABC’s to see who would last the longest….
I chose “Booktube,” or YouTubers who make videos and channels about books and the publishing industry, for this blog post because I think it is an interesting case of spreadability and participatory culture. Most Booktubers are regular people, usually in their late teens or early twenties, who love books and want to be part of…
As I write essays, not the five by five nonfiction essays we are given in grade school, but the creative nonfiction essays I have been taught to write through practice and reading, I frequently find myself falling onto the question of audience. “Even if this gets published,” I think, “does anyone really read essays?” It’s…