The development and widespread use of Internet technologies and platforms that are grouped under the labels “Web 2.0” and “social media” have led to celebratory accounts of their potential as tools to unleash human creativity. A “creativity consensus” has emerged that describes a vision of creative production via these new platforms as universal, democratic, communal, non-commercial, and revolutionary. The avant-garde of Web 2.0 creativity are said to be young, web-savvy media makers: a new generation that has embraced new technology and is upending old notions of creativity and related cultural practices. This dissertation challenges these views through an ethnographic investigation of deviantART, the self-described “world’s largest online art community.” The dissertation demonstrates how conflicting ideals of art, creativity, and the web, when put into practice, shaped the site as ideological and technical infrastructure for creative practice and the formation of members’ creative identities. In their use of the site, participants in deviantART actively, and at times contentiously, engaged with historical tensions concerning both art and the web. The dissertation explores tensions emerging around three sets of concerns: (1) gaining artistic recognition through visibility, popularity, or quality; (2) demonstrating artistic “seriousness” in relation to ways of improving at art; and (3) controlling and circulating work through the concepts of property, “sharing,” and “theft.” The dissertation argues that rather than upending Romantic conceptions of art and creativity, the web uneasily accommodates multiple conflicting ideologies. Intersecting with tensions in art are tensions around the web and its overlapping corporate, commercial, and communal uses. deviantART brought together a diverse set of art worlds and creative practices via a seemingly conventional set of interfaces, features, and functionality. In turn, participants on the site helped manifest, reproduce, and transform these tensions in art practice and web use. These findings illustrate flaws in conventional accounts of creativity in a world with the web—accounts that fail to recognize the active, contested, and ongoing work underlying the mutual production of creative practice and the web.

While Lessig is incensed at the raising of a generation of criminals, he is unfazed at the thought of raising a generation of commodities, whose attention and interest is a source of revenue for some venture capitalist. At a time when advertising directly to children is under increasing scrutiny, and for good reason, the commodification of friendship and of home videos should make a parent of young children concerned. But it does not.

Somehow, code monkeys surrounded by earth-toned cubicle fabric think that it makes them resemble DJs surrounded by crates of vinyl if they use musical buzzwords to refer to the act of combining multiple things into a new one.

The Sample Pool API allows two media hosting servers to keep track of when one uses samples from another.

Welcome to the iStock Steel Cage. Your center ring for bare-knuckle, back-alley Photoshop knockout bouts.

"Reference is a device, and is only as useful as the artist who wields it is talented. In other words, ideally, it will spur creativity, not stifle it, allowing the artist to work efficiently and effectively."

This project aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that can be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project should be placed into the Public Domain

TheNewsRoom is the hub of Voxant’s viral syndication network. Voxant is dedicated to creating an open, global syndication network for rich media news content on the Internet.

Boasts direct integrated access to the Beatport Online Music Store, allowing you to browse their extensive catalogue, pre-listen and buy hot new tracks and download them directly into your library.

Fake news graphic creator.

Allows you to build hacks for Cocoa applications and apply the code selectively based on an application's unique identifier.

Textop will be a set of projects, managed by a strong collaboration among a global group of scholars, with the aim of organizing the information contained in books, dictionaries, opinionated essays, and news articles--and perhaps other sources--into a sin

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Chat with other users while you upload and mix your sounds, images and movies in real-time.

Readers have the opportunity to create their own interview clips opposite Post political reporter Dana Milbank.

This fifth Media in Transition conference, then, aims to generate a conversation that compares historical forms of cultural expression with contemporary media practices.

Cartoon remixes.

In the style of Sealab 2021 comes The Skeletor Show, a heartwarming story of the most evil man in the universe.

Bound By Law reaches beyond documentary film to provide a commentary on the most pressing issues facing law, art, property and an increasingly digital world of remixed culture.

A Swarm of Angels is a new way to create cult media. The project is a giant new media experiment to gather 50,000 people paying £25 each to create a new type of movie.

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The largest machinima film ever created, released under a Creative Commons license that allows derivatives.

D7's live production team combines multiple video projections, special effects, live camera feeds, and laser animation to create what D7 calls "Immersive Environments."

A web-based tool for re-editing selections from this year's San Francisco International Film festival. 19 directors from 9 countries agreed to allow their films to be sliced and diced by the world's remixers.

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Research is about developing practices for open and distributed audiovisual productions.

Established media has to grapple with the novel fact that its next generation of consumers is also competition.

MOD Films makes re-mixable films and tools for film re-use. Sustainable Story Systems.

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As we move to an age of plug-and-play software, in which performance will be judged on the ease with which different programs can be assembled and disassembled, the barrier to close collaboration in the open-source model may turn out to be not a weakness

The call for this new regulation is being led by the United States government and the European Commission, pushed by highly paid lobbyists for a trade association that includes Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, Real Networks and a handful of other companies.

DJs may "not mix, remix, Segue, edit, change or otherwise manipulate the sounds of any Sound Recording so that the sounds on the Dubbed copy of the Sound Recording are different from those on the original Sound Recording."

Faceted classification of BBC Creative Archive clips.

MediaBASE is a software application for creating, sharing and exchanging media objects and compositions within a delimited social context.

For the first time in its history BBC News is opening its archives to the UK public for a trial period.

Visualization of sampling history.

The anime industry is doing everything the rest of show biz isn't: embracing technology, coddling fans—and making a killing.

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The DJ Project is an arts entrepreneurship program built on a hip-hop foundation.

Reggae riddim citation data (who versioned whom).

Breakbeat sampling citation data (who sampled whom).

This course focuses on employing XML and web services to reuse or "remix" digital content and services.

Wiki for a one-day conference bringing together archivists, educators, technologists, entrepreneurs, producers, legal experts, and investors to explore the enormous promise offered by the availability of online video and television content.

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Onegai Studios specializes in content adapted from video games.

A new research partnership between Yahoo! Inc. and the University of California at Berkeley to explore and invent social media and mobile media technology and applications that will enable people to create, describe, find, share, and remix media.

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Teenage code memes.

Explanation of how MTV2 producers create music videos using content from popular video games.

There is a focus in 2005 among leading Internet service architects: creating a social media computer that leverages user generated content to automate the production of commercial content.

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"Today, an endless, recombinant, and fundamentally social process generates countless hours of creative product (another antique term?)."

"If we are to encourage new kinds of creative expression, we have to accept that this will only happen if we allow our content to degrade into dust. Remix culture requires flexibility – the ability to reduce content to the single atom."

The emerging aesthetic he describes is one in which the proliferating technologies of sampling and studio manipulation have eroded the distinction between music's producers and consumers.

Using stills from DVDs, I've stitched long, panning shots from Futurama together into single, extra-wide frames.

In Remediation, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin analyze new technologies and their implications for American society...

Social software has enormous potential to help us collect, examine, discuss, organize, and edit large archives.

OverClocked ReMix is a website dedicated to reviving the video and computer game music of yesterday, and reinterpreting that of today, with new technology & capabilities.

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He is currently a doctoral fellow and lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles.

backstage.bbc.co.uk is the BBC's new developer network, providing content feeds for anyone to build with.

A wry commentary on machine-dominated man, the man to whom nothing matters, who waits for chance to call his number. The film is a succession of many unrelated views of the passing crowd.

The idea that copying another person's ideas or expression (the form of words in which the idea is encapsulated), without the person's authorization and without explicit acknowledgment of the copying, is reprehensible is, in general, clearly false.

"Video search - and its attendant economies... will only work if we have millions of people informing our collective knowledge of what is worth our individual attention, and that can only happen if we can annotate, share, and remix video."

A small duel between 2 people to display their AMV skillz and put them to a test.

A musical geneaology of the Apache break.

Pretty random flash animations containing many pop culture references.

Signal/Noise 2k5 will explore audience creativity enabled by digital technologies and built upon commercial media.

Every two weeks, one challenge will close as the next challenge opens, and members will be asked to make fifteen to twenty seconds of a video based on that challenge: a vidbite.

Exhibition of artists who work by connecting between them films, artworks or books, produce routes among the signs, invent modes of storage of information, archive or remixage.

We are developing a PythonLanguage based desktop client to allow users to gather and organize digital images from their own collections and digital repositories and create interesting new things from these images.

An animated drama from the BBC: you can download the soundtrack songs as MP3s and many of the basic components of the animated series (backgrounds, flash files) can be downloaded and reassembled.

Creates pictures by assembling random images from the web.

A non-profit, gen-friendly slash con for fans 18 years or older who enjoy the diversity of relationships in TV shows, movies, books, or other media.

Geez, in the community if it's not from an overhyped TV show or overvidded movie, no one comments on it...

Remixfight is a place where a bunch of people take the loops of a song and make a remix. Then we vote on the best.

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