User:Curiaso/sandboxRemixCulture

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Bibliography with Reasons

• Curran, James (2012). “Rethinking Internet History” in J. Curran, N. Fenton, and D. Freedman (eds.) Misunderstanding the Internet, (pp. 34-60). London: Routledge. - In the section of "Revolt of the Nerds" Curran talks about repurposing one thing for another, and I think that is applicable to remix culture.
• Chapter 5 from Galloway, Alexander. (2004).Protocol: How control exists after decentralization. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. - Is there some way to use this to demonstrate/exemplify Hacking as a remix-culture? I think there might be.
• Hetcher, S. (2009). Using Social Norms to Regulate Fan Fiction and Remix Culture. University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 157(6), 1869-1935. Retrieved October 2, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/40380281 - I just realized there is nothing about fanfiction on this wiki, and I don't know how there isn't any so this is extremely relevant. Actually I think I might want to make it my project to add fanfiction as a section!
• Jansen, B. (2013). The Case of ccMixter: Credit-Giving within a Communal Online Remixing Practice. In Thissen J., Zwijnenberg R., & Zijlmans K. (Eds.), Contemporary Culture: New Directions in Art and Humanities Research (pp. 155-166). Amsterdam University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctt6wp6n0.14 - Giving credit where credit is due in a culture that is based off using other peoples work to make your own.
• Rosenblatt, B., & Tushnet, R. (2015). Transformative Works: Young Women’s Voices on Fandom and Fair Use. In Bailey J. & Steeves V. (Eds.), EGirls, eCitizens: Putting Technology, Theory and Policy into Dialogue with Girls’ and Young Women’s Voices (pp. 385-410). University of Ottawa Press. Retrieved October 2, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.temple.edu/stable/j.ctt15nmj7f.19 - More fanfiction stuff, since thats what I've decided I would like to focus on.
• Rosenblatt, B., & Tushnet, R. (2015). Transformative Works: Young Women’s Voices on Fandom and Fair Use. In Bailey J. & Steeves V. (Eds.), EGirls, eCitizens: Putting Technology, Theory and Policy into Dialogue with Girls’ and Young Women’s Voices (pp. 385-410). University of Ottawa Press. Retrieved October 2, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt15nmj7f.19 - Good for perspective on why people write fanfiction, and more about fair use in remix culture.

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Remix culture, sometimes read-write culture, is a term describing a society that allows and encourages derivative works by combining or editing existing materials to produce a new creative work or product. A remix culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holders. Combining elements has consistently been a common practice of artists of all domains throughout human history, but in recent years copyright restrictions have made this more difficult. The remix culture for cultural works is related to and inspired by the earlier Free and open-source software for software movement, which encourages the reuse and remixing of software works. The combining of cultures in remix culture, the effect of artists, copyright issues, domains of remix culture, overall history, and reception will be included in this article.

This is a new section I would place either under Books or Film/Video. Although I think it probably fits best with Books and Other Information, as Fanfiction might be categorized as other, because it can be written about books, musicians, celebrities, and film or TV stars. I'm not sure which section would fit 100%. The only sections I think it firmly should not be under is GIFS and Software and other digital goods.

Fanfiction is an example of remix culture in action, in relation to books. Fanfiction is written work, made by fans of various forms of media ranging from books, to TV shows, to celebrities. The remixed fiction draw on the characters of the writers fandom, in order to tell their own story, or their own version of the original story. Remix Culture relies on creators taking one work and repurposing it for another use  just as fanfiction takes an existing work and repurposes it for a new story, or series of events. Steven Hetcher writes that fanfiction, and remix culture at a broader level, can provide social benefit to the societies who participate in writing and reading fanfiction by providing a creative outlet. Fanfiction remixes in a variety of styles. Some writers use the pre existing characters, but place them in different settings. Others take pre existing settings, and place in new characters, and so on.