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Melanie McBride is a researcher at Ryerson University’s Experiential Design and Gaming Environments (EDGE) lab. See her About page for more information.
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Praxis 2.0: Escaping the edu-travelogue

By Melanie, on March 5th, 2011

Remix artist Pogo’s Disney remix “Alice”

In 2009, I came across the inspiring work of self-taught Australian remix musician Nick Bertke (aka “Pogo”). As a media teacher doing remix in my own media production classes, I was interested in learning more about Pogo and his creative process. So I interviewed him about it.

What I [...]

Remixing and mashing it up with RIP: A remix manifesto

By Melanie, on March 26th, 2009

Last week I taught my class about Creative Commons, Larry Lessig and remix culture. Over the weekend, still feeling inspired by remix culture, I checked out RIP: A remix manifesto:

“RiP: A remix manifesto is an open source documentary about copyright and remix culture. Created over a period of six years, the film [...]