This week we are learning a new content of art, which is “Remix.” According to the video that instructor post in the blog, which is about remix. The speaker show the audience several examples of how to use technology to”remix” some videos and music to play for fun. He mentioned that he is not trying to talk about “piracy” because it is not “people taking other people’s content in wholesale and distributing it without the permission of the copyright without the permission of the copyright owner” He is trying to talk about “people taking and recreating using digital technology to say things differently.” He thinks that it represent a kind of “democratized” in our society. However, I think that the remix can not always bring us the positive way because once people have right to demonstrate their idea by “remix” some videos, they might use it to spread some negative influence. What do you think of this problem? Do you agree with that technology’s development make our society more “democratising”?
Remix discussion
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Hi, thanks for sharing your opinions on thinking about the remix. I think each video has its positive or negative aspect for the viewers. However, some videos may show their bias opinions purposely, it may raise conflicts between people with different cultures. For those videos, it should be sensored because they were used for raising problems between people and it break the peace. Some others may not in purpose, and we can just ignore the tiny aggressive opinions or just watch them for fun. I think some video makers are making video for entertaining people and we can watch the video just for fun.
I also found that the change in culture to begin remixing things in society to demonstrate their own opinions and views to be interesting. If I look around into the popular videos that are online nowadays, I can see that a lot of them are parodies and spoofs of things that we would see naturally in the world. For example, in the TED talk that I believe that you are referencing as well, Larry Lessig the speaker plays the video where the creator remixed presidential speeches with a popular love song as if the president were having some kind of affair with another man who I take as another candidate or perhaps his running mate. The creator attempted to remix the videos so that their mouths would match up with the words of the song to make it appear as though George W. Bush was actually singing those words. I find that this type of video, a parody, is not negatively effecting society. However, I believe that there are videos out there that can come off as being very offensive depending on who the viewer is. And for this problem, I believe that there are some regulations being enforced by the website to control it such as setting age restrictions to certain kinds of videos and things like that but I also feel that there isn’t really a way to fully control the situation either. Because there is freedom of speech in this country which I believe extends even to the worldwide web.