Internet privacy

Internet Privacy by Yvonne Pham is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

My remix contains contents from Youtube, like the documentaries, and the song privacy by Michael Jackson, ABC news, and graphics from Google. I wanted to inform people about the importance of privacy in the United States, and let people know why they should care. Privacy affects all of of us in many different ways. I wanted to put together many different clips and media to make it serious but also kind of fun so that anyone who wants to understand it can. That is why I included clips from the song by Michael jackson because like many celebrities we also want our privacy. I cut our many clips and only used what I wanted, and I also changed the speed and the pitch of some of it.

Man Not Machine

Man Not Machine by Madeleine Alvarado is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://youtu.be/aQKDxIFSI90.

My remix assignment was focused on prosthetic technology. Amputees are given a chance to accomplish normal human function through the advancements in medical and prosthetic technology. However, these advancements have become so novel and caught the eye of the able bodied. Some scientists believe that the human body is obsolete and inefficient. Cybernetics look to replace what makes us human and make us advanced superhuman machines. I found video clips of many amputees who have benefitted from prosthetic advancements, allowing them to complete basic tasks such as walking or playing the drums. I contrasted these clips with more radical and weaponized integration of technology into humans, both scientific and Hollywood images. I advocate for prosthetics to allow the disabled to reacquire natural human function, and I advocate against cybernetics on able bodied individuals. I used iMovie to edit the youtube clips collected.

What Cyber Bullying Really Does by Highland is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afY3wT5IQIg.

I am focusing on Cyber Bullying and I decided to reveal the darker reality behind it. The image of the man standing on the outside of the Golden Gate Bridge is originally from the movie "The Bridge"-- a documentary about people who commit suicide by jumping of the bridge. The comments all come from two videos I found on Youtube where an overweight woman sings popular songs; they are real examples of Cyber Bullying. I decided to combine these two things to show what really happens when people cyber bully, the real affects it has; I placed the comments from Youtube on the picture, around the man, to represent that people really do go to the lengths of killing themselves from the bullying they receive online. The process was relatively tedious because I had to hunt down the youtube comments, screenshot them, and then edit them to put them on the photo. 

Mansplaining (News Media Remix)

 
Mansplaining (News Media Remix) by Emily Krebs is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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This video is primarily a compilation of broadcast news clips. Their sources vary (FOX, MSNBC, CNN, etc.) but they all show men explaining— “mansplaining”— the alleged realities of the world to women.

To change this from a mere compilation to a remix, I took two clips of men telling women how to [ironically] overcome mansplaining, then proceeded to show women attempting to do just that— of course to no avail. I took the notion that women are just ‘not assertive enough’ and flipped it on its head, instead showing the greater reality that their voices are devalued regardless of their temperament.

To produce this video, I collected clips from YouTube as well as images from Time Magazine’s cover galleries, then combined them using Final Cut Pro.

Remix Assignment (Warning: violent and sexual language in images)

For my assignment I decided to tackle the issue of online sexual harassment. I wanted to place the responsibility and pressure on the perpetrator rather than the victim. I am remixing the identity of the perpetrator. Instead of seeing their own reflection they are forced to examine the reflections of their words and actions. No what their appearance on the outside is their internal self and online image begin to converge. 

To convey this message I found images of people looking into mirrors, drew over any watermarks or previous texts, cut out their reflections, and replaced the reflections with comments I found on various websites (youtube, 4chan, reddit, YikYak, and facebook) demonstrating online sexual harassment. I used the program FireAlpaca (similar to photoshop) to create all three of the images. The process of finding the comments was emotionally exhausting to say the least. My idea of a good night usually does not involve actively looking for such demeaning and violent comments. However, my experience in compiling the images together and formatting the comments was difficult but enjoyable once I got the hang of it. 

images hosted on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131665215@N07/

Combat Online Sexual Harassment by Catherine Wadley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Google is bad by Nicholas Hazard is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This my remix project I decided to focus around data mining and more so how and why big companies like Google are taking our personal information. For this project I really wanted to juxtapose Americans perceptions of freedom and personal privacy with what is really going on with all our data and information. I believe the first step for positive chance is to get awareness first. Nothing can happen until the American public truly knows what is happening to their personal information and data. For this I started with. To begin the assignment I found a Mitt Romney ad that showed images of the beauty and strength of American. This acts as the visual aspects of the assignment. For the audio I got a wide range of clips regarding Google how their data collecting policies. I also coupled this with a song called big brother is watching you. To edit all this I used IMovie on my mac, the process was fairly simple and straightforward. I wanted this video to be a harsh awaking of the reality of the situation.

For my Remix Assignment, I wanted to incorporate the ideas of environmental news, along with other news sources, while highlighting the actual lack of environmental news there is today in the media. Today, it seems as if we can only find celebrity news, crime based news, etc., with a huge lack of environmental news on mountains, state parks, and more. The goal of my piece was to highlight the overwhelming emphasis within the media that other popular culture news highlights, along with the minuscule highlight on environmental news. This is an issue that could be addressed through a comical remix assignment, addressing the satire behind this project proposal about the media. 

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