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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Remediation parts 2 and 3: The Remediated Self and Taking Things to Extreme
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
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Blogs and More Blogs
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
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Bolter and Grusin– Remediation: Understanding New Media
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
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A pause to consider remediation and how “more” doesn’t mean “better”
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
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Lingua Fracta (chaps 5-8) and Electric Sheep (chaps 16-22)
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
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