Online Remixing site

Alternate Title: promoting an on-line community of amateur designers

Author: Monroy-Hernández, Andrés

Other Contributors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. System in Media Arts and Sciences.

Advisor: Mitchel Resnick.

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Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Date Issued: 2012

This work describes a framework the design and study of an on-line neighborhood of amateur creators. I concentrate on remixing as lens to understand the contexts and operations of imaginative phrase since it is fostered within social media marketing surroundings. Im motivated by three wide concerns: 1) procedure: just how do folks remix and what is the part of remixing in cultural manufacturing and personal understanding? 2) problems: what type of attributes influence people's remixing techniques? 3) Attitudes: what are individuals attitudes toward remixing? As part of this work, we conceived, created and examined the Scratch network: a site in which young people share and remix their own game titles and animations, along with those of their peers. In five years, the city has exploded to more than one million authorized people and two million community-contributed projects. Inside character of motif of this work, this dissertation remixes a few articles and blogs compiled by myself or in collaboration with other people. Whenever we can, the sources of the materials are mentioned.

Thesis (Ph. D.)-Massachusetts Institute of tech, class of Architecture and thinking, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2012.; Cataloged from PDF type of thesis.; Includes bibliographical sources (p. 169-176).