Author Archives: dcook020

Colleague Blog Post Reflections I have responded to the blogs of Mathieu Reynolds, James Gregory, Susanne Nobles, and Laura Ray. It’s fascinating to see how the concept of “the remediated self” overlaps with Baudrillard’s ideas of simulacra (as Susanne had … Continue reading →

Remediated Spaces, Actors and Animatronics The second installment of Remediation by Bolter and Grusin explored how several media reform, refashion, improve on older media. This list of media included virtual reality, computer graphics, and remediated spaces such as Disney World. … Continue reading →

I’m glad we were given the chance this week to comment on each others’ work. Granted, the only thing stopping us from doing this before was the lack of time due to all the other components of our lives and … Continue reading →

For my canonical text, I am reading Bolter and Grusin’s, Remediation: Understanding New Media. This work first came out in 1999 and it’s amazing how although the general look of the media and images they cite looks very dated (digital … Continue reading →

This diagram relates a bit to the idea of remediating “the real.” What is reality anymore? Is it what each of these series say it is? Of course not. I really find it intriguing to consider how much of reality … Continue reading →

SPOILER ALERT: A lot of frustrating things happen in the latter chapters of Electric Sheep that sort of left me cold, which could have been the whole point of the author in the first place. The story did a good … Continue reading →

In this week’s readings in Electric Sheep, some doubt has been removed, though not entirely. Deckard gets to finally buys a goat. I would have gone with the pair of rabbits myself. I’m thinking, “OK, so his empathy to take … Continue reading →

Gane and Beer’s scholarship, again, is to be commended as this book examines diverse perspectives around the main six concepts: network, information, archive, simulation, interactivity and interface. What’s also commendable is that they don’t privilege any one of these concepts, … Continue reading →

As for Gane and Beer’s New Media: The Key Concepts, I’ve encountered some of these ideas before, though not as widely filled-out with the scholarship they have done. The concept most interesting to me right now is the idea of … Continue reading →

I’ve been slo-o-owly moving my way through the New Media track in the PhD in English program but I have already completed all required courses. However, I wasn’t able to enter the dissertation phase last fall due to great upheaval … Continue reading →