Remix video and the crisis of the humanities.
The discourses of crisis in the humanities is juxtaposed with an analysis of remix video practices to suggest that the cognitive and cultural engagement feared lost in the former appear with frequency and enthusiasm in the latter. Whether humanists focus on the deleterious effects of the digital or...
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Organization for Transformative Works - Karen Hellekson
2012
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