In Johnson-Eilola and Selber’s
article, the concept of assemblage relates very closely to remix. In the
article, assemblage is defined as the process of drawing from several existing
texts in order to create a new text for the purpose of shining a new light on a
certain issue. Remix, on the other hand, uses all forms of media as opposed to
being exclusively textual. The similarity between the two is of course the fact
that they both put existing works into reuse in order to create something new,
regardless of what the purpose is for.
The issue plagiarism
and originality is also discussed within the article, namely at the beginning,
where the authors discuss how teachers enforce the idea of originality on their
students, going as far as to make them sign contracts agreeing not to use other
sources. However, true originality has ceased to exist and an argument can be
made for everything to say that it was inspired by a work that came previously.
This is not to say that all works are plagiarized, as the line between
plagiarism and originality is crossed once the work produced is a carbon copy
of an existing work, without crediting the original creator.
At first
read, I did not see a difference between remix and assemblage, so I was
slightly confused. However upon rereading the introduction, I believe I now
know the difference – an assemblage draws from text whereas a remix draws from
various forms of media. The blurry line between plagiarism and assemblage was
also made clear, because the main difference is that a plagiarized work does
not cite any sources and claims to have complete originality over the work at
hand.
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