Writing can be described as the art of putting words together and forming meaningful sentences. This year in this class I learned that writing is more than just a form of communication, writing brings people together by creating a new different form of entertainment.
A remix is a way of making new things out of things that already exist. For example, a producers song being taken and added a singer, and the singer makes it her song featuring the producer.
Without writing remixing would never be able to work out. Writing is the foundation of every kind of entertainment. Therefor if we have no original entertainment remixing would never be able to happen. So yes there is a very clear connection between the two.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Blog Post #9
While thinking about making my last project I decided that I wanted to focus on something that would matter to me on a larger scheme than just a school project. I had 3 ideas but my favorite was making a poster to motivate kids to join the arts. The exigency was that in the recent years the arts have been starting to be cut, if we dont motivate kids to open their eyes and see that the arts dont have to be a nerdy thing to do but in fact something great and fun to do. If no change happens soon the arts will be gone from the standard K-12 curriculum there for, I believe making something like this shows how important the cause is. Im trying to mimic the got milk posters.
The second idea I had was to make an add for drunk driving. The exigency of this event is huge because it is clear intoxicated drivers put themselves in huge danger and put everyone else on the road in danger as well. I would make an ad to add on the DUI ads and not just include drunk driving but in fact include all types of intoxicated driving.
My last idea was to create a stay above the influece poster. I think that drug abuse in college campuses are extremely high, therefor I believe one should make new posters that could be more relatable with college kids.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Blog Post #8
Bitzers explains that there are three main components of rhetorical situation, they are exigency, audience, and constraints.
So Bitzer explains that exigence is a reason or the urgency of something to be done. Although he explains that exigence is not always rhetorical, he makes it clear that only exigences that can be modified can be considered to be rhetorical. In other words only exigence capable of positive modification and when this positive modification can be assisted by discourse is when exigence can be considered rhetorical. The in-text example that Bitzer uses is the example of air pollution, because the reduction of air pollution is brought on by discourse producing public awareness and action.
The second constituent of his rhetorical situation is audience. He describes audience as people able to be influenced and able to receive knowledge. So since rhetoric produces change by the influence that it has on people (since people act as mediators) it is obvious that an audience is necessary for rhetoric. He uses the example of scientists and poets that do not require an audience in order to produce their end.
The last constituent of rhetoric is constraints which are persons, events, objects, and relations. These are parts of the rhetorical situation because they have the power to limit or constrain decisions and actions needed to modify exigence. Bitzer explains that there are two main classes of constrains, ones which are operative and those that originate by the rhetor.
Blog Post #7
Multimodality and genre in my opinion have a very strong relationship, I believe that without one you really cant have the other. The reason I believe this is because genre can be described as a way of organizing things by their similarities. Meanwhile multimodality is the different forms and ways that we can relay messages. So in other words multimodality uses modes to relay messages based on different types of genres. For example, the news about the Mayweather and Pacquiao fight is released through the TV on a sports channel at night, this all happens because of the genre the fight is in, this differs from lets say a murder case that is released instantly through a news channel and a prime news time.
I believe that the main relationship between multimodality and genre is that the type of mode used to portray information is determined by the genre of the information, making so that multimodality has a direct correlation with genre in the sense that it completely relies on genre to determine the way the information is going to be relayed.
I believe that the main relationship between multimodality and genre is that the type of mode used to portray information is determined by the genre of the information, making so that multimodality has a direct correlation with genre in the sense that it completely relies on genre to determine the way the information is going to be relayed.
Blog post #5
My Genealogy was based on the way in which Gustav Holst piece "Mars" from his symphony "The Planets" was remixed or one might even stolen by John Williams to compose the "Imperial March." From then on I went ahead to find out that other bands such as Led Zeppelin and Black Zabbath had sampled mars as well but instead gave credit to Holst. My remediation is to focus on a breaking story, either in a fictional way or even a non-fiction way, that states that Holst is to sue John Williams for ripping him off and stealing his work.
Anyways, since generally people that listen to classical music enjoy star wars I thought it would be clever to maybe make it an online article, and make it pass as maybe an Onion article. Which is cool because it is something that they could find online while checking social media. So basically my 1st targeted audience is perhaps classical music enthusiasts who love Star Wars, that are young enough to always be on social media but old enough to understand the content of the article.
The second audience I would like to target are young adults, perhaps college students that are music majors. The medium I would use is a news paper, mainly because I would like to make it sound like it was a serious matter, this would be more appropriate because of the audience is older and sophisticated making a news paper a great source for them to read about this.
The last medium I thought about using was a television news report, this would help me target the older crowd of people. Generally because the elderly spent most of their time watching TV and most of the elderly enjoy classical music, many even have profound knowledge on classical music, which would be great because they could relate and understand whats going on with my story.
Anyways, since generally people that listen to classical music enjoy star wars I thought it would be clever to maybe make it an online article, and make it pass as maybe an Onion article. Which is cool because it is something that they could find online while checking social media. So basically my 1st targeted audience is perhaps classical music enthusiasts who love Star Wars, that are young enough to always be on social media but old enough to understand the content of the article.
The second audience I would like to target are young adults, perhaps college students that are music majors. The medium I would use is a news paper, mainly because I would like to make it sound like it was a serious matter, this would be more appropriate because of the audience is older and sophisticated making a news paper a great source for them to read about this.
The last medium I thought about using was a television news report, this would help me target the older crowd of people. Generally because the elderly spent most of their time watching TV and most of the elderly enjoy classical music, many even have profound knowledge on classical music, which would be great because they could relate and understand whats going on with my story.
blog post #4
Although Richards writing was very difficult to understand, reading the highlighted passages simplified the main points and through context clues and my basic knowledge of old English style writing I was able to come to an average understanding of each excerpt. For example, in the first excerpt I believe that Richards main point was that there is no wrong way of using a word. Which relates to our discussion of remixing in class because we are focusing on the idea that everything is basically recycled words, we reuse and "remix" sentences and words to make this new meaning, similar to what Richards is saying except we focus on the bigger picture (like combining sentences or even changing little modes in movies to come up with a completely different story line) opposed to him focusing on singled out words.
In an overall focus of the excerpts I concluded that Richards main idea was the faults of the traditional doctrine of usage. Hes argument is that the doctrine brings up misunderstandings of how a word could be used and that although there is no wrong way of using a word, a words overall meaning stands the same and its up to the surrounding context to be able to understand the true meaning of the word. This is why there is no wrong way of using a word, there is only misinterpretation of words but not a misusage of them.
Basically his excerpt was very confusing to understand, and very difficult to read. But overall I believe that he was trying to exemplify that words alone don't have a pre-determined meaning, but in fact they get their meaning from what surrounds them. Which is relatable to our discussion of remixes because just like the word, it is about the change of modes and the way that the creator portrays the work that make it "original" and not a plagiarized idea.
In an overall focus of the excerpts I concluded that Richards main idea was the faults of the traditional doctrine of usage. Hes argument is that the doctrine brings up misunderstandings of how a word could be used and that although there is no wrong way of using a word, a words overall meaning stands the same and its up to the surrounding context to be able to understand the true meaning of the word. This is why there is no wrong way of using a word, there is only misinterpretation of words but not a misusage of them.
Basically his excerpt was very confusing to understand, and very difficult to read. But overall I believe that he was trying to exemplify that words alone don't have a pre-determined meaning, but in fact they get their meaning from what surrounds them. Which is relatable to our discussion of remixes because just like the word, it is about the change of modes and the way that the creator portrays the work that make it "original" and not a plagiarized idea.
Blog Post #3
The way in which Johnson-Eilola and Selbers concept of assemblage relate to Remix is because they mainly talk about the way that plagiarism is actually not always that bad, which is similar to what were talking about, which is how different sources of entertainment relate and are remixed to one another, which is completely different than stealing a song, which is just what they say. They specify that just because a piece of information is already released by someone else, its not bad for someone to come in and add a bit of input on the subject. A big important key word on that matter is "add" if one is just stealing another persons work without putting in any input then that's when it can be considered plagiarism
The weird thing about this article is the way the information was presented to one. It felt like it was, well for most of the time, talking about pretty much the same thing, which led me to believe, at least the first time I read the article that there is really no line between plagiarism and originality. Johnson-Eilola and Selbers really focus on the fact that the reason its so hard to determine this "line" is because there is really no place where one can say that all the information they found is original, most findings are all based on previous peoples information and the fact that today's generation is so intertwined and information is so easily accessible, societies standards have made the writer or composer focus on not plagiarizing so much that it can sometimes alter creativity. That is the mere fact that confused me about the article, maybe a question asking what the thin line between creativity and plagiarism is would make more sense, but still, after reading the article twice I still don't know where one could draw, this so called line, between plagiarism and originality.
The weird thing about this article is the way the information was presented to one. It felt like it was, well for most of the time, talking about pretty much the same thing, which led me to believe, at least the first time I read the article that there is really no line between plagiarism and originality. Johnson-Eilola and Selbers really focus on the fact that the reason its so hard to determine this "line" is because there is really no place where one can say that all the information they found is original, most findings are all based on previous peoples information and the fact that today's generation is so intertwined and information is so easily accessible, societies standards have made the writer or composer focus on not plagiarizing so much that it can sometimes alter creativity. That is the mere fact that confused me about the article, maybe a question asking what the thin line between creativity and plagiarism is would make more sense, but still, after reading the article twice I still don't know where one could draw, this so called line, between plagiarism and originality.
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