Remediation: Understanding New Media

摘要: Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of new: they assume that digital technologies such as World Wide Web, virtual reality, and computer graphics must divorce themselves from earlier media for a new set aesthetic cultural principles. In this richly illustrated study, Jay David Bolter Richard Grusin offer theory mediation our age challenges assumption. They argue visual achieve their significance precisely paying homage to, rivaling, refashioning perspective painting, photography, film, television. call process "remediation," note have also refashioned one another: photography remediated film stage production television vaudeville, radio.