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MIT Press Endorsement- [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/remediation]
MIT Press Endorsement- [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/remediation]
Remediation Wikia- [http://newmedia.wikia.com/wiki/Remediation]
Remediation Wikia- [http://newmedia.wikia.com/wiki/Remediation]
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=MEDIA AND REMEDIATION IN THE CLASSROOM=
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==E Learning==
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Distance learning began before computers or the internet existed. This later became known as E Learning, the concept of learning in a more independent and real world way without a textbook or constant guidance of an educator <ref>http://proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ehh&AN=28652023&site=eds-live</ref> . The idea is to absorb the information and then remediate that absorption rather than the exact words from the textbook. Distance learning and the use of multiple media for education allows for more possibilities and ways to experience learning<ref> http://proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ehh&AN=28652023&site=eds-live</ref>.
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==Key Concepts For Creators==
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Nothing is isolated in media from previous works or cultural events or economic or social pressures. What is unique has more to do with how older works are repackaged and how older, more established media respond to this repackaging. All media engage this process, and once it is acknowledged that immediacy requires media to be repackaged and repositioned in for better accessibility, we are able to identify this same process in the evolution of  media, and trace its progression through history.
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While any interactive interface is advanced, the most advanced allows users to navigate it without realizing that they are actively searching for something.  Rather, the experience is immediate and organic. This is called an “interfaceless interface”, a more transparent model which “erases itself”, eliminating the concept of a medium. While the older medium is absorbed, it is also retained and employed.  All remediation fills some void left by another mediation.
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William Irvin’s "On the Rationalization of Sight" discusses the importance of “mathematizing space”. This is defined as using a linear perspective to provide for easier use and modification, while maintaining a transparent medium. The eyes naturally respond to this plain. It can be seen in photography, painting and digital art.
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=CRITICISM=
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==Strange Days==
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Professor Larry Hodges, GVU Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, produced a film based on using a wire which allows the user to close his or her eyes and when the user closes his or her eyes and experience the world with a “subjective camera”. The film describes a "wire" which allows users to be transported visually to an all encompassing reality. The film discusses the double logic of remediation. Bolter and Grusin  explain, “Our culture wants to both multiply its media and to erase all traces of mediation: ideally, it wants to erase its media in the very act of multiplying them.”<ref> http://proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=9351&site=eds-live&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_III</ref> In the film, the wire is a revolutionary piece which is different and more advanced than any creation.  Yet, we know that the concept of immediacy and remediation is one that has been around for decades. Whether by film, painting or photography, earlier media forms focused their efforts on more of an aesthetic effect rather than an all encompassing space.
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==Not Like Television Only Better==
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Immediacy, hypermediacy, and striving to create a spontaneous and “live” experience requires a great deal of planning. Even the most hypermediate forms of media require their own form of immediacy.  Bolter and Grusin explain, “Whenever one medium seems to have convinced viewers of its immediacy, other media try to appropriate that conviction.”<ref> http://proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=9351&site=eds-live&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_III</ref> EXAMPLE: CNN website demonstrates hypermediacy by surrounding viewers with various stories, links and hyperlinks, while the television show represents immediacy, making people feel that they are a part of this reality.  Immediacy and hypermediacy depend on the user being completely blind to the mediation of the experience, and rather focus solely on the experience. The difference between television and the immediacy provided by a tool like the wire, is that where a television is a clear medium for experiencing media, the wire completely removes the barrier between the user and the media by removing the presence of a medium.
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If actual immediacy were possible, then participants could be left alone without any direction related to the objects of mediation. This full definition of immediacy, of course, does not exist<ref> http://proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=9351&site=eds-live&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_III</ref>.
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==Reverse Remediation==
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Reverse remediation is the opposite of remediation. Where remediation is suppose to seamlessly blend, reverse remediation intentionally makes media visible by displaying its characteristics in order to raise awareness of how remediation and media is changed and how that change creates meaning<ref> http://proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ibh&AN=94232088&site=eds-live</ref>. Instead of promoting a transparent relationship, reverse remediation advocates that we look back at past relationships with the original interface in order to improve performance, and this type of cooperation is what causes the immersion into an interface<ref>http://proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ibh&AN=94232088&site=eds-live</ref>. When this immersiveness is broken, we see that a medium is actually being used. This means that media can be used by deconstructing existing pieces to create something new rather than hiding the original inspiration.
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Hypermediacy transitions to reverse remediation when there is a disruption in the “immersion factor”<ref>http://proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ibh&AN=94232088&site=eds-live</ref>. This shakes the viewer out of his former state and forces him to critique the media that was previously manipulated, thus causing the reverse remediation. Maria Korsten argues that it is in this way that hypermediacy alternates between mediation and reverse remediation<ref>http://proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ibh&AN=94232088&site=eds-live</ref>.
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==Remediation as Narcism==
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A metaphor presented by Maria Korsten describes McLuhan’s anxiety over the a reader’s complete blindness to medium. The inability to see where the content is coming from results in the assumption that the user is looking into their own experience rather than participating in its own creation. <ref>http://proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ibh&AN=94232088&site=eds-live</ref>
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Bolter, J. David, and Richard A Grusin. 1996. "Remediation." Configurations no. 3: 311.Project MUSE, EBSCOhost (accessed November 28, 2015).
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Bolter, J. David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation : Understanding New Media. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 1999. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 28 Nov. 2015.
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Heeyoung, Han. "Mediation And Remediation In Online Learning." International Journal Of Learning 14.2 (2007): 225-230. Education Research Complete. Web. 29 Nov. 2015.
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Maria Korsten, Saskia Isabella. "Reversed Remediation: A Critical Display Of The Workings Of Media In Art." Maska 28.159/160 (2013): 29-38. International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text. Web. 29 Nov. 2015.
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Remediation is a media theory that explains how media does not have a formula or specified way of being created or designed. Media is the main means of communication to large groups of people. [1] According to remediation, the media’s existence is related to other media forms. The theory is fundamentally comparative and assumes that media does not possess autonomous formal or technical specificity, but that it exists only in relation to other media forms and practices. The theory also argues that new media does not present a historical break or rupture with the past, but rather it defines their newness through the refashioning of the present media forms.

Remediation:Understanding New Media text by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin
Remediation:Understanding New Media text by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin [2]

Contents

People

Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan was a philosopher of communication theory, and his work was the foundation for theories like remediation. He lived from July 21, 1911 to December 31, 1980. He was born in Canada, and he studied English at the University of Manitoba and Cambridge. He created a lot of terms for media theory, including the Medium is the Message. His work influenced the media in his lifetime, but he has influenced modern day ideas. McLuhan created a foundation for theories like remediation.

Bolter and Grusin

Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin created the remediation theory. They wrote Remediation: Understanding New Media which is regarded as a founding text of the field of new media studies. They wrote it while working together at the Georgia Institute of Technology. They are both in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. Bolter and Grusin discuss a range of ways that designers can remediate mediums. [3] On one end of the spectrum, a creator borrows everything from the first medium and transfers it to the second. For example, a movie about a Jane Austen novel that is faithful to the novel are adaptations that are trying to recreate the feelings that a reader has while reading the novel. A movie based on a novel transfers from one medium to the next, and the differences are caused by remediation. Another type of remediation is when the new media is trying to get away from the old media but still has evidence of past media, because it is impossible to completely eliminate the ideas of old media. It is like trying to build a house without the foundation. An example of this is how some movies are made to be in 3-D, so they have the characters interact with the audience or have moments where things go toward the camera to make it look like it is being thrown into the audience. These new forms of film are from the beginning of film, because the reality of the experience motivates the progression of film. A third type of remediation on this scale is when the new media tries to absorb the old, but the new relies so much on the impressions of the old. For example, animated movies use computer graphics to make the animations look life-like.


Ideas Behind Remediation

Hypermedia and Immediacy

There is a co-dependent relationship between hypermedia and immediacy. In the Bolter and Grusin article, "Remediation", one of the ideas is that “the desire for immediacy leads to a process of appropriation and critique by which digital media reshape or ‘remediate’ one another and their analog predecessors such as film, television, and photography.” [4] Immediacy is the catalyst for the reshaping of digital media, but the desire for immediacy comes from the current form of medium. Immediacy is remediated when people crave for immersion into the medium. The closer the medium is to generating reality, the more content users are. Hypermedia is a mix of a lot of forms of media in order to affect more than one sense or to expand within that sense to create a reaction. Immediacy is created when one feels connected to what is going on through his or her senses.

Inventing the Medium

Janet Murray who is the author of Inventing the Medium, defines remediation as the phenomenon of reproducing the conventions or content or both of one medium in another. [5] New media is always influenced by the old forms of media, and in return, the new media has an influence on old media. Murray presents some of the issues with remediation in our society. The first issue is that designers are not satisfied with simply repeating the old format in the newest digital form. That is a weak remediation: “We cannot be satisfied with just reproducing older information formats in digital form, settling for mere remediation of the textbook, the lecture, the broadcast TV show, the paper newspaper.” Designers create new media through thinking about the user. They think about what they would want to change with the current forms of media and what they want to bring over into the next form of media. The second issue is about boundaries of technology and of the projects themselves, and this leads to taking smaller steps in order to develop a future and more drastically different version. [6] A designer might have good ideas for ways to remediate information, but they can only design within the limits of technology, so they make multiple goals and plans in case technology moves in a different direction.

The Medium is the Message

"The Medium is the Message" is the first chapter of Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, published in 1964. [7] In his discussion of the electric light, McLuhan says the “content” of the medium is the activities that electric light allowed: “This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium—that is, of any extension of ourselves—result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology." [8]The electric light has no decision in what its content is. The content can be anything that someone is creative enough to imagine. This is how the web is. The web is just what holds and delivers the content. This analog simplifies what the web as a medium affects people. The content being so vast means that there is always something that a user has not read or interacted with. There is always new content being remediated from old content, because the desire for more interaction motivates remediation. The medium changes through this process.

External Links

Remediation text- [1] MIT Press Endorsement- [2] Remediation Wikia- [3]

MEDIA AND REMEDIATION IN THE CLASSROOM

E Learning

Distance learning began before computers or the internet existed. This later became known as E Learning, the concept of learning in a more independent and real world way without a textbook or constant guidance of an educator [9] . The idea is to absorb the information and then remediate that absorption rather than the exact words from the textbook. Distance learning and the use of multiple media for education allows for more possibilities and ways to experience learning[10].

Key Concepts For Creators

Nothing is isolated in media from previous works or cultural events or economic or social pressures. What is unique has more to do with how older works are repackaged and how older, more established media respond to this repackaging. All media engage this process, and once it is acknowledged that immediacy requires media to be repackaged and repositioned in for better accessibility, we are able to identify this same process in the evolution of media, and trace its progression through history.

While any interactive interface is advanced, the most advanced allows users to navigate it without realizing that they are actively searching for something. Rather, the experience is immediate and organic. This is called an “interfaceless interface”, a more transparent model which “erases itself”, eliminating the concept of a medium. While the older medium is absorbed, it is also retained and employed. All remediation fills some void left by another mediation.

William Irvin’s "On the Rationalization of Sight" discusses the importance of “mathematizing space”. This is defined as using a linear perspective to provide for easier use and modification, while maintaining a transparent medium. The eyes naturally respond to this plain. It can be seen in photography, painting and digital art.

CRITICISM

Strange Days

Professor Larry Hodges, GVU Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, produced a film based on using a wire which allows the user to close his or her eyes and when the user closes his or her eyes and experience the world with a “subjective camera”. The film describes a "wire" which allows users to be transported visually to an all encompassing reality. The film discusses the double logic of remediation. Bolter and Grusin explain, “Our culture wants to both multiply its media and to erase all traces of mediation: ideally, it wants to erase its media in the very act of multiplying them.”[11] In the film, the wire is a revolutionary piece which is different and more advanced than any creation. Yet, we know that the concept of immediacy and remediation is one that has been around for decades. Whether by film, painting or photography, earlier media forms focused their efforts on more of an aesthetic effect rather than an all encompassing space.

Not Like Television Only Better

Immediacy, hypermediacy, and striving to create a spontaneous and “live” experience requires a great deal of planning. Even the most hypermediate forms of media require their own form of immediacy. Bolter and Grusin explain, “Whenever one medium seems to have convinced viewers of its immediacy, other media try to appropriate that conviction.”[12] EXAMPLE: CNN website demonstrates hypermediacy by surrounding viewers with various stories, links and hyperlinks, while the television show represents immediacy, making people feel that they are a part of this reality. Immediacy and hypermediacy depend on the user being completely blind to the mediation of the experience, and rather focus solely on the experience. The difference between television and the immediacy provided by a tool like the wire, is that where a television is a clear medium for experiencing media, the wire completely removes the barrier between the user and the media by removing the presence of a medium. If actual immediacy were possible, then participants could be left alone without any direction related to the objects of mediation. This full definition of immediacy, of course, does not exist[13].

Reverse Remediation

Reverse remediation is the opposite of remediation. Where remediation is suppose to seamlessly blend, reverse remediation intentionally makes media visible by displaying its characteristics in order to raise awareness of how remediation and media is changed and how that change creates meaning[14]. Instead of promoting a transparent relationship, reverse remediation advocates that we look back at past relationships with the original interface in order to improve performance, and this type of cooperation is what causes the immersion into an interface[15]. When this immersiveness is broken, we see that a medium is actually being used. This means that media can be used by deconstructing existing pieces to create something new rather than hiding the original inspiration.

Hypermediacy transitions to reverse remediation when there is a disruption in the “immersion factor”[16]. This shakes the viewer out of his former state and forces him to critique the media that was previously manipulated, thus causing the reverse remediation. Maria Korsten argues that it is in this way that hypermediacy alternates between mediation and reverse remediation[17].

Remediation as Narcism

A metaphor presented by Maria Korsten describes McLuhan’s anxiety over the a reader’s complete blindness to medium. The inability to see where the content is coming from results in the assumption that the user is looking into their own experience rather than participating in its own creation. [18]


References

Bolter, J. David, and Richard A Grusin. 1996. "Remediation." Configurations no. 3: 311.Project MUSE, EBSCOhost (accessed November 28, 2015).

Bolter, J. David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation : Understanding New Media. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 1999. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 28 Nov. 2015.

Heeyoung, Han. "Mediation And Remediation In Online Learning." International Journal Of Learning 14.2 (2007): 225-230. Education Research Complete. Web. 29 Nov. 2015.

Maria Korsten, Saskia Isabella. "Reversed Remediation: A Critical Display Of The Workings Of Media In Art." Maska 28.159/160 (2013): 29-38. International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text. Web. 29 Nov. 2015.


  1. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media
  2. ↑ https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAcQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Flitinawiredworld.wikia.com%2Fwiki%2FRemediation&ei=MRQ3VZTCEYPLsAWAtYD4Cg&bvm=bv.91071109,d.b2w&psig=AFQjCNHuxZ7440kP1VTSb0DffWoS7GjQmA&ust=1429759154620276
  3. ↑ http://lmc.gatech.edu/~objork3/1101/fall07/remediation.pdf
  4. ↑ http://lmc.gatech.edu/~objork3/1101/fall07/remediation.pdf
  5. ↑ Janet H. Murray. Inventing the Medium: Principles of Interaction Design as a Cultural Practice (Kindle Locations 4870-4872). Kindle Edition.
  6. ↑ Janet H. Murray. Inventing the Medium: Principles of Interaction Design as a Cultural Practice (Kindle Locations 617-622). Kindle Edition.
  7. ↑ http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/mcluhan.mediummessage.pdf
  8. ↑ http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/mcluhan.mediummessage.pdf
  9. ↑ http://proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ehh&AN=28652023&site=eds-live
  10. ↑ http://proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ehh&AN=28652023&site=eds-live
  11. ↑ http://proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=9351&site=eds-live&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_III
  12. ↑ http://proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=9351&site=eds-live&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_III
  13. ↑ http://proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=9351&site=eds-live&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_III
  14. ↑ http://proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ibh&AN=94232088&site=eds-live
  15. ↑ http://proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ibh&AN=94232088&site=eds-live
  16. ↑ http://proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ibh&AN=94232088&site=eds-live
  17. ↑ http://proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ibh&AN=94232088&site=eds-live
  18. ↑ http://proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ibh&AN=94232088&site=eds-live
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