Blog Post 3

Johnson-Eilola and Selber’s concept of assemblage is related to things we have been discussing in calls when it comes to remixes. The mainly about t taking pieces of work that has already been made/ created and changing them to add to your own work. The article is addressing the thin line between originality and plagiarism. Especially in this generation of teens, because a lot of the young people’s inspirations comes from work that has already been made. So ultimately you are limiting the abilities of these people who could do so much better if there were allowed to use others ideas to help guide them.  Assemblages and remixes both involve taking pieces of other peoples work.  There article explains that most of the time, people don’t really mean to plagiarize. It’s not like they intend to copy word for word, or whichever form they decide to copy but they do it accidently because this information is already in their heads. The article also stated that students today pay more attention to making sure they aren’t plagiarizing versus writing the actual paper. Once again limiting the creativeness and excitement to their work.  The article tries to explain the strict differences between plagiarizing and remixes.  But ultimately the line between them is quite confusing cause to some they might be remixing a body of work, and to others they may be straight copying which is plagiarizing. The article its self is that confusing, it’s just the amount of information given throughout the article, it’s a lot. So I had to re-read a bunch of times, just to stay focused on the information.