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Narrative: Creativity and the Digital Native

Trevor looks like an average guy in his late teens. But recently he’s found, as he’s becoming famous, that he gets a lot more attention from girls at his high school. Turns out, he’s one of hottest hands on Revver, a new online video-sharing service. And he’s even making a little bit of money for his troubles, which further enhances his sense of well-being.

Trev specializes in mash-ups. He started by digitizing parts of his favorite TV shows and posting them to YouTube, but he found that they kept getting taken down and he’d have to create new user accounts to keep uploading files. Plus, other people were posting regular TV all over the web, and he didn’t see the point after a while. Then he got a Mac for his birthday. It had the coolest suite of editing software. He started to shoot a bit of digital video, but mostly he would find clips other people made online. He’d stitch them together on his Mac, overlay a music track he liked, and post them online. He called himself the MashUpKing.

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