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The concept of assemblage that was proposed by Johnson-Eilola and Selber brings up the idea of incorporating other’s work and refining the multiple sources into something “better.” Assemblage is a step further from a remix, in which it removes the hierarchy of the source and originality. The difference between plagiarism and originality is the amount of effort put into changing the source material to make something original. This applies in both legal and educational senses. In almost every single class that was taken since high school, there has always been an emphasis that plagiarism is bad and that we had to use quotes and citations in order to reference the source. Every piece of writing would be turned into Turnitin.com and it would search a database of other pieces of writing in the Internet to check whether phrases or sentences would match. In most cases, it would, but only out of pure coincidence. There are rarely ever remixes to the film and cinema as it usually leads to legal issues. However, there are homages to this form of art that this scholarly review doesn’t necessarily mention. That’s what was confusing when referencing The Shining and parts where one person started creating a mash up of scenes and title cards. I felt as though that example was randomly thrown in there and didn’t fit into the previous and subsequent examples of the web interface, design and architecture.  DJ Mouse’s “The Gray Album which remixed of The Beatles’ “White Album” and Jay Z’s “The Black Album, was an appeal to mass readers and novices in this topic by referencing the typical remix used in music.

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