Journal 3: Re, Re, Re, Remix! Firstly, I know that technology moves quickly, and creating a textbook that is 100% up to date that addresses the use of the latest tech would be impossible. However, reading the first few paragraphs of chapter one and encountering a sentence about “Myspace” as one of the digital technologies being used definitely threw me for a loop. I had to think back to the technology we had during my original college days (1998-2002), the amount it changed even in those short four years, and how I used it in ways that would be considered “remixing.” While some of the technologies mentioned in the reading are still around, they may not be utilized as much or in the same way as how the author described them. I have a Mac and use Imovie to create my youtube videos, but I now use images and video clips that I have stored in Google Drive rather than flickr or myspace. From the book, one of the things I appreciated about the author’s concept of play vs. wo...
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