The Media Mixer. User Creativity through Production, Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Digital Media Content

Christian Hviid Mortensen, Vitus Vestergaard

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Abstract

We explore how remixing and content sharing can be used as a means for user participation in a digital museum age. Remix culture is seen as a culture that allows and encourages the production of derivative works; works that are based on already existing works. This cultural practice thrives throughout the Internet, most notably on web 2.0 sites like YouTube. The Media Museum has embraced the remix paradigm with the development of an interactive media experience centre called the Media Mixer. Here the museum users can produce, deconstruct, reconstruct and finally publish and share digital media content. The media content is created by the user in the museum’s physical environment, but it can be mixed with material from web archives. It is the intention that the users learn about media through participatory and creative processes with media where the borders between producing, playing and learning are blurred.
Original languageEnglish
JournalNordisk Museologi
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)35-44
Number of pages10
ISSN1103-8152
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • user participation
  • digital media
  • remixing
  • web 2.0
  • video
  • audio
  • RW culture

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