Remediation : understanding new media / Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin.

By:

Bolter, J. David, 1951-

Contributor(s):

Grusin, Richard A [aut]

Material type:

TextPublication details: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2000.Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 295 p. : ill. b&w and col. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780262522793

Subject(s):

Mass media -- Technological innovations

DDC classification:

302.23

Contents:

Preface -- Introduction: The Double Logic of Remediation -- 1. Immediacy Hypermediacy, and Remediation -- 2. Mediation and Remediation -- 3. Networks of Remediation -- 4. Computer Games -- 5. Digital Photography -- 6. Photorealistic Graphics -- 7. Digital Art -- 8. Film -- 9. Virtual Reality -- 10. Mediated Spaces -- 11. Television -- 12. The World Wide Web -- 13. Ubiquitous Computing -- 14. Convergence -- 15. The Remediated Self -- 16. The Virtual Self -- 17. The Networked Self -- 18. Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Index.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface --
Introduction: The Double Logic of Remediation --
1. Immediacy Hypermediacy, and Remediation --
2. Mediation and Remediation --
3. Networks of Remediation --
4. Computer Games --
5. Digital Photography --
6. Photorealistic Graphics --
7. Digital Art --
8. Film --
9. Virtual Reality --
10. Mediated Spaces --
11. Television --
12. The World Wide Web --
13. Ubiquitous Computing --
14. Convergence --
15. The Remediated Self --
16. The Virtual Self --
17. The Networked Self --
18. Conclusion --
Glossary --
References --
Index.

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.

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