Remedition = the act of improving something
Well, studying media i ought to write something pertaining to my study. So here is a brain-opener!
“Our culture wants both to multiply its media and to erase all traces of mediation; ideally it wants to erase its media in the very act of multiplying them” says David J. Bolter in his book, Introduction: The Double Logic of Remediation.
It seems like our economy is developing faster than light and people are always looking for improvements. One of the fastest changing industries is that of the media. Traditional media such as the Newspaper and Radio are trying to stay in the market and cope with the challenges brought by new media such as the Internet and Ipod. Television improved itself by introducing the “live” streaming feature, Newspapers tried joining hands with the Internet by publishing an online version of its papers and Books can now be read through the computer as electronic-books.
This brings us to the term Remediation, which means “to bring something up to an expected level of performance”. This is what is happening currently to the media industries. Our expectations and cultures are pushing media industries to take the next step to advancement without noticing the outcome of this advancement. For instance, people used to buy Newspapers as they were well distributed, affordable and news could be read on the way to work. But the birth of the Internet encouraged the birth of the Internet-browsing mobile phones. People were then able to access Internet easily and could read online news for free. Newspapers were then forced to publish their content online, which could be accessed with a minimal fee. Unfortunately, hardly anyone wants to pay for quality news when they can get news updates for free. Thus, our act of multiplying media is actually resulting in erasing them. It is mainly the older generation that still buys the traditional Newspaper, but in a matter of time newspapers will become extinct.
On the contrary, Photograph was a remediation of drawing with regards to capturing images. People were able to capture images instantly without the need of effort, pencil and paper. Photography requires skills and a good photograph could give much more details than a drawing. Photographs were believed to outlive sketches, paintings and sculptures, however they “have little or no property value” and is not even considered fine art. Once again, our intention of multiplying media is resulting in erasing it. In this case, it’s the “improved” version of drawing, photographs that got erased instead.
What can you gage from this guys? That life is moving too fast. Faster than our legal and educational institutions can keep up with.
Cheers!
“Our culture wants both to multiply its media and to erase all traces of mediation; ideally it wants to erase its media in the very act of multiplying them” says David J. Bolter in his book, Introduction: The Double Logic of Remediation.
It seems like our economy is developing faster than light and people are always looking for improvements. One of the fastest changing industries is that of the media. Traditional media such as the Newspaper and Radio are trying to stay in the market and cope with the challenges brought by new media such as the Internet and Ipod. Television improved itself by introducing the “live” streaming feature, Newspapers tried joining hands with the Internet by publishing an online version of its papers and Books can now be read through the computer as electronic-books.
This brings us to the term Remediation, which means “to bring something up to an expected level of performance”. This is what is happening currently to the media industries. Our expectations and cultures are pushing media industries to take the next step to advancement without noticing the outcome of this advancement. For instance, people used to buy Newspapers as they were well distributed, affordable and news could be read on the way to work. But the birth of the Internet encouraged the birth of the Internet-browsing mobile phones. People were then able to access Internet easily and could read online news for free. Newspapers were then forced to publish their content online, which could be accessed with a minimal fee. Unfortunately, hardly anyone wants to pay for quality news when they can get news updates for free. Thus, our act of multiplying media is actually resulting in erasing them. It is mainly the older generation that still buys the traditional Newspaper, but in a matter of time newspapers will become extinct.
On the contrary, Photograph was a remediation of drawing with regards to capturing images. People were able to capture images instantly without the need of effort, pencil and paper. Photography requires skills and a good photograph could give much more details than a drawing. Photographs were believed to outlive sketches, paintings and sculptures, however they “have little or no property value” and is not even considered fine art. Once again, our intention of multiplying media is resulting in erasing it. In this case, it’s the “improved” version of drawing, photographs that got erased instead.
What can you gage from this guys? That life is moving too fast. Faster than our legal and educational institutions can keep up with.
Cheers!
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