Remediation: Understanding New Media

Bolter, Jay David; Grusin, Richard

ISBN 10: 0262522799 / ISBN 13: 9780262522793

Published by MIT Press, 2000

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Synopsis:

A new framework for considering how all media constantly borrow from and refashion other media.

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

About the Author: Jay David Bolter is Wesley Chair of New Media and Codirector of the Augmented Media Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of <I>Remediation: Understanding New Media</I> (with Richard Grusin), <I>Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art and the Myth of Transparency</I> (with Diane Gromala), both published by the MIT Press, and other books.<br /><br /><DIV>Richard Grusin is Professor and Chair of English at Wayne State University in Detroit.</DIV>

Bibliographic Details

Title: Remediation: Understanding New Media
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
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