Journal Response 4

The concept of a “remix” can be understood as remaking something that has already been done before. This meaning may seem like the definition of a remix is like plagiarism, which is essentially copying or getting someone’s else’s work for your benefit and creating something out of that. In fact, everything around us is practically a remix of something else. Everything we have comes from something else; we all get inspired by different ideas and make it our own. Novels, TV shows, movies, etc., are all formed by their own ideas with some help of other stories and ideas already made. The process of remix and assemblage does benefit the process of composition because we all have something to gain from other texts and improve it by using that support and being able to expand the text or media in that way.

Remix can be referred to anything that has been altered from its original form, such as a remix of a song, which is the most common form of remixing. However, remixing can be done to any forms of media. Assemblage is when something, or a form of text, incorporates new ideas with a previous old idea. Those two terms and their meanings might be similar because in a way you are still changing the old form of the media or text and making something new, while still using the original form as a “base” or some sort of inspiration. We can gain a lot from both remix and assemblage. For instance, by remixing, we can have a whole new text or media using different ideas and create something different. However, one negative aspect of remixing is that the more it is done with a certain concept, it could become redundant to have several remixes of the same concept all over again. I’m all for remixing but if it is done in moderation. We can all gain from assemblage in the fact that we all can contribute to a media piece or writing by adding our own ideas and using those old ideas as support. By having those old ideas there, they can be used to make an argument stronger, include different point of views and make the narrative or writing even better.