With the growth of digital culture, internet users have begun devising new strategies for communicating online. One strategy, remix, allows users to compose works by synthesizing existing media. Although scholars typically examine remix's legal or pedagogical implications, some users employ remix to negotiate contested public issues. Using narrative analysis, this study examines how non-experts in a given discourse, the debate regarding NASA's future, use remix to digitally alter the words of science experts and position spaceflight as critical to humankind's future.;Based on these "spaceflight" remixes, I suggest two implications: first, some remixes not only alter expert arguments but marginalize their status in popular memory; as a result, experts must tailor communication to reflect the obscuring power of remix. Second, some remixes garner support for their causes by altering collective, national histories. Ultimately, remix suggests the problematic ways that non-experts and amateur filmmakers alter digital remembering and externalized memory online.
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