Comments on: DustEchos – Remixing old stories into new culture http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2007/09/13/dustechos-remixing-old-stories-into-new-culture/ a place where I 'think out loud' and share stuff online Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:13:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Tom Cotton http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2007/09/13/dustechos-remixing-old-stories-into-new-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-2015 Tom Cotton Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:23:50 +0000 http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2007/09/13/dustechos-remixing-old-stories-into-new-culture/#comment-2015 who is the creator? who is the owner? who’s permitted to use it? Questions like these shows how narrow and limited our western cultural perspective is. We are so preoccupied by defining the creator and owner we miss the point of the creation itself. Mashup is not a new concept; in fact it’s the norm in many aboriginal societies. It’s just only now in a digital realm we in the wider western society are rediscovering that culture can be similutaneously created, shared, celebrated, evolved and participated in, with, for, and by communities. If Newton stood on the shoulders of a few giants, I’m sure we could possibly reach the same cultural heights by standing together with many many other people… who is the creator? who is the owner? who’s permitted to use it? Questions like these shows how narrow and limited our western cultural perspective is. We are so preoccupied by defining the creator and owner we miss the point of the creation itself.

Mashup is not a new concept; in fact it’s the norm in many aboriginal societies. It’s just only now in a digital realm we in the wider western society are rediscovering that culture can be similutaneously created, shared, celebrated, evolved and participated in, with, for, and by communities.

If Newton stood on the shoulders of a few giants, I’m sure we could possibly reach the same cultural heights by standing together with many many other people…

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