Genuinely New: The Strategy of Remix in Live Blogs

Authors

  • Jenna Ng University of York

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21825/aj.v2i2.793

Keywords:

Live blogs, digital culture, remix, social media, authorship

Abstract

This article examines the strategies of remix as used to author live blogs in mainstream news media. The importance of this lies in how authorship shapes not only the form of the text but also its critical content and reading experience. Studying a variety of live blogs as used on The Guardian website, the author observes and classifies three such strategies: remix for continuity and diversity of content; for connecting digital and physical time-spaces; and for sociability on both the worldwide and mobile web. In light of the reproducibility of content in digital media, the article also re-considers the nature of digital authorship in terms of how such authorship engages in a more extensive global dialogue, adding to a glue of social media that holds together different voices across spaces.

Author Biography

Jenna Ng, University of York

Jenna Ng is Anniversary Research Lecturer in Film and Interactive Media at the University of York. She is primarily interested in the aesthetic, cultural and technological dynamics of digital moving images, but she also has research interests in digital culture, social media, mobile technologies, moving image technologies and digital heritage. She is the editor of Understanding Machinima: essays on filmmaking in virtual worlds (Bloomsbury, 2013), has made multi-media work incorporating films, web installations and QR codes, and has published work in various essay collections and journals, including Animation and Cinema Journal.

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Published

2013-09-20

How to Cite

Ng, J. (2013). Genuinely New: The Strategy of Remix in Live Blogs. uthorship, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.21825/aj.v2i2.793

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2013)

Section

Special Topic: Remix

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