ABSTRACT

As we saw in Chapters 3 and 4, reading and writing through digital media are interactive processes, with readers able to write back to authors and actively take part in text production. In addition, with mashups and remixing, creating a digital text is often a matter of piecing together the texts of others to come up with a new and original work. Although it might seem as though you are working ‘alone’, you are in a sense entering into ‘collaboration’ with the creators of the texts, images, music and sound that you are remixing. Thus, digital literacy practices increasingly involve us in interaction and/or collaboration with others.