Keywords in Remix Studies

Keywords in Remix Studies consists of twenty-four chapters authored by researchers who share interests in remix studies and remix culture throughout the arts and humanities. The essays reflect on the critical, historical and theoretical lineage of remix to the technological production that makes contemporary forms of communication and creativity possible. Remix enjoys international attention as it continues to become a paradigm of reference across many disciplines, due in part to its interdisciplinary nature as an unexpectedly fragmented approach and method useful in various fields to expand specific research interests. The focus on a specific keyword for each essay enables contributors to expose culture and society’s inconclusive relation with the creative process, and questions assumptions about authorship, plagiarism and originality. Keywords in Remix Studies is a resource for scholars, including researchers, practitioners, lecturers and students, interested in some or all aspects of remix studies. It can be a reference manual and introductory resource, as well as a teaching tool across the humanities and social sciences.

Eduardo Navas is the author of Remix Theory: The Aesthetics of Sampling (2012) and Spate: A Navigational Theory of Networks (2016). He is co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies (2015). He currently researches and teaches principles of cultural analytics and digital humanities in the School of Visual Arts at Pennsylvania State University, PA. He is Research Faculty in the College of Arts and Architecture's Arts & Design Research Incubator (ADRI), and a Center for Humanities and Information Research Fellow (CHI) also at Pennsylvania State University.

Owen Gallagher is a lecturer of Web Media at Bahrain Polytechnic, specializing in graphic design, filmmaking, animation and interactive media. He received his Ph.D. in Visual Culture from the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) and has published a number of book chapters and journal articles on remix culture, intellectual property and visual semiotics, as well as presenting his research internationally. Gallagher is a co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies (2015) and maintains a number of websites including totalrecut.com, an online community archive of remix videos, and criticalremix.com, an outlet for ongoing remix-related research.

xtine burrough makes participatory projects for networked publics. burrough is co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies (2015), author of Foundations of Digital Art and Design (2013), and editor of Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design (2011). She is editor of The Visual Communication Quarterly. An associate professor in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at the University of Texas at Dallas, burrough co-directs the Social Practice & Community Engagement (SP&CE) Media Lab and LabSynthE, a laboratory for the creative investigation of synthetic and electronic poetry.