Mashups are a fusion of media. Some kinds of mash ups include Web GPS, Video and Photo, Search and shopping mashups, news mashups. Mashups are beneficial to new media. I am a media student I enjoy the access we are allowed to manipulate media. This topic is a bit similar to the open source discussion because the user has the ability to manipulate the media to improve performance.
The MTV Article about The Grey Album producer Danger Mouse was interesting to read, the process it took to create a new media by using existing media. Media Mashups pushes the boundary’s of media, that is what media technology is for, to be shared, and experience and manipulated. The entire hip-hop genre is based on “mashups” also known as sampling. Also another famous designers and artist Andy Warhol used Mashup techniques in some of his most famous work. Mashups that are in high demand can draw draws attention to the original products.
