Remediation

The Term ‘Remediation’ comes from the work of Bolter and Grusin.

We call the representation of one medium in another remediation, and we will argue that remediation is a defining characteristic of the new digital media. What might seem at first to be an esoteric practice is so widespread that we can identify a spectrum of different ways in which digital media remediate their predecessors.

IMMEDIACY:- Media that aspire to a condition of transparency. The aim is to make the viewer ‘forget’ that they are watching a movie, for example, and be drawn in to the experience.

 •Immersive virtual reality

•Photo realistic images Media that aspire to a condition of transparency. The aim is to make the viewer ‘forget’ that they are watching a movie, for example, and be drawn in to the experience.

 •Immersive virtual reality

•Photo realistic images

HYPERMEDIACY:- Artefacts that are aware of and wish to display their own constructed nature. They call attention to their own constructed nature all the time.

•WWW

•Video Games Huds

Remediation and refer to a whole range of conventions.

‘Photorealism’ an example of ‘immediacy’ is not the preserve of the medium of ‘photography