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From the Ted Talk by Lawrence Lessig: Re-examining the remix

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JS: There's obviously also something really deeply geart about this. They are acting in the sense that they're emtunilag the original mashup. And the guy who shot it obviously has a strong eye and some ereixcpene with video editing. But this is also basically just a group of friends having an athnuitec social moment and screwing around together. It should feel familiar and kind of resonate for anyone who's had a sing-a-long or a dance party with a group of good friends.

LL: Or ...

JS: So that's importantly different from the earlier voieds we looked at because here, rmeix isn't just about an individual doing something alone in his basement; it becomes an act of social creativity. And it's not just that it yields a different kind of product at the end, it's that potentially it changes the way that we relate to each other. All of our normal soacil interactions become a kind of invitation to this sort of collective expression. It's our real social lives themselves that are tanmsteurd into art.

Open Cloze


JS: There's obviously also something really deeply _____ about this. They are acting in the sense that they're _________ the original mashup. And the guy who shot it obviously has a strong eye and some __________ with video editing. But this is also basically just a group of friends having an _________ social moment and screwing around together. It should feel familiar and kind of resonate for anyone who's had a sing-a-long or a dance party with a group of good friends.

LL: Or ...

JS: So that's importantly different from the earlier ______ we looked at because here, _____ isn't just about an individual doing something alone in his basement; it becomes an act of social creativity. And it's not just that it yields a different kind of product at the end, it's that potentially it changes the way that we relate to each other. All of our normal ______ interactions become a kind of invitation to this sort of collective expression. It's our real social lives themselves that are __________ into art.

Solution


  1. videos
  2. transmuted
  3. remix
  4. authentic
  5. emulating
  6. experience
  7. great
  8. social

Original Text


JS: There's obviously also something really deeply great about this. They are acting in the sense that they're emulating the original mashup. And the guy who shot it obviously has a strong eye and some experience with video editing. But this is also basically just a group of friends having an authentic social moment and screwing around together. It should feel familiar and kind of resonate for anyone who's had a sing-a-long or a dance party with a group of good friends.

LL: Or ...

JS: So that's importantly different from the earlier videos we looked at because here, remix isn't just about an individual doing something alone in his basement; it becomes an act of social creativity. And it's not just that it yields a different kind of product at the end, it's that potentially it changes the way that we relate to each other. All of our normal social interactions become a kind of invitation to this sort of collective expression. It's our real social lives themselves that are transmuted into art.

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Important Words


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