Remediation: Understanding New Media

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Jay David Bolter (Wesley Chair of New Media, Georgia Institute of Technology) Richard Grusin (Director, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)

Remediation

Understanding New Media

Jay David Bolter (Wesley Chair of New Media, Georgia Institute of Technology), Richard Grusin (Director, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)

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English

MIT Press
06 January 2000

Media studies

Series: The MIT Press

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.

By: Jay David Bolter (Wesley Chair of New Media Georgia Institute of Technology), Richard Grusin (Director, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 522g
ISBN: 9780262522793
ISBN 10: 0262522799
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 06 January 2000
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jay David Bolter is Wesley Chair of New Media and Codirector of the Augmented Media Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Remediation- Understanding New Media (with Richard Grusin), Windows and Mirrors- Interaction Design, Digital Art and the Myth of Transparency (with Diane Gromala), both published by the MIT Press, and other books. Richard Grusin is Professor and Chair of English at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Reviews for Remediation: Understanding New Media

The authors do a splendid job of showing precisely how technologies like computer games, digital photography, film television, the Web, and virtual reality all turn on the mutually constructive strategies of generating immediacy and making users hyperaware of the media themselves...The authors lay out a provocative theory of contemporary selfhood, one that draws on and modifies current notions of the 'virtual' and 'networked' human subject. Clearly written and not overly technical, this book will interest general readers, students, and scholars engaged with current trends in technology. —Choice