Remediation : understanding new media

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Title:

Remediation : understanding new media

Author:

Bolter, J. David, 1951-

ISBN:

9780262522793

9780262024525

Personal Author:

Bolter, J. David, 1951-

Edition:

1st MIT press pbk. ed.

Publication Information:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000.

Physical Description:

xi, 295 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Contents:

Immediacy, hypermediacy, and remediation -- Mediation and remediation -- Networks of remediation -- Computer games -- Digital photography -- Photorealistic graphics -- Digital art -- Film -- Virtual reality -- Mediated spaces -- Television -- The World Wide Web -- Ubiquitous computing -- Convergence -- The remediated self -- The networked self.

Abstract:

'Remediation' emphasises how all forms of media constantly borrow from and refashion other types of media. The authors argue that the new media of the 90s pay homage to earlier forms and thereby achieve their own cultural significance.

Subject Term:

Mass media -- Technological innovations.

Mass media.

Added Author:

Grusin, Richard A.

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A new framework for considering how all media constantly borrow from and refashion other media.

Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new- they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web, virtual reality, and computer graphics must divorce themselves from earlier media for a new set of aesthetic and cultural principles. In this richly illustrated study, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin offer a theory of mediation for our digital age that challenges this assumption. They argue that new visual media achieve their cultural significance precisely by paying homage to, rivaling, and refashioning such earlier media as perspective painting, photography, film, and television. They call this process of refashioning "remediation," and they note that earlier media have also refashioned one another- photography remediated painting, film remediated stage production and photography, and television remediated film, vaudeville, and radio.