ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on fan vids, vidding, and ways they can be utilized in the classroom. It outlines some of the ways vidding and remix have been theorized as forms of media criticism. Vidding is a fan practice and a form of "remix," a term used to describe a range of practices in which cultural artifacts are combined and manipulated "into new kinds of creative blends and products". Framing vidding as a form of rhetoric that "cites, synthesizes, and juxtaposes its sources" has significant implications for media studies, communication, and college writing instructors. When teaching vidding as a practice, calling upon fan literacies becomes more complicated. If vidding is DIY-media analysis, this is DIY-style teaching. It requires experimentation and flexibility. Within fandoms, vidding can operate as a collective working through of issues and gaps in a particular source text.
