Remediation: Understanding New 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.

(Source: MIT Press)

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Critical writing that references this:

Title	Author	Publisher	Year
Writing Coastlines: Locating Narrative Resonance in Transatlantic Communications Networks	J. R. Carpenter		2015
Words and pictures ex machina? Hypertext and ekphrasis	Diana Pimentel		2008
Travels in Cybertextuality. The Challenge of Ergodic Literature and Ludology to Literary Theory	Markku Eskelinen		2009
Transmedia Practice: Theorising the Practice of Expressing a Fictional World across Distinct Media and Environments	Christy Dena		2009
Translation, transmutation, transmediation and transmission in TRANSMIISSION [A DIALOGUE]	J. R. Carpenter	Laboratorie NT2	2014
Transdução: Processos de Transferência na Literatura e Arte Digitais	Álvaro Seiça		2011
Towards Network Narrative: Electronic Literature, Communication Technologies, and Cultural Production	David M. Meurer	Dichtung Digital	2012
The Metainterface: The art of platforms, cities and clouds	Søren Bro Pold, Christian Ulrik Andersen	The MIT Press	2018
Remediating the Social introduction	Simon Biggs		2012
Reading the Discursive Spaces of Text Rain, Transmodally	Francisco J. Ricardo	Continuum	2009
Pre-web Digital Publishing and the Lore of Electronic Literature	Astrid Ensslin	Cambridge University Press	2022
New Textualities	Manuel Portela	EJES: European Journal of English Studies	2007
Narrative Subjects Meet Their Limits: John Barth's "Click" and the Remediation of Hypertext	Laura Shackelford	Contemporary Literature	2005
Mutability, Medium and Character	Dene Grigar	Computers and the Humanities	2002
Metaphoric Networks in Lexia to Perplexia	N. Katherine Hayles	Electronic Book Review (ebr)	2005
Intervals and Links: The Indeterminancy of a Link's Possible Future	Adrian Miles		1999
Interactive Technology and the Remediation of the Subject of Writing	Michelle Kendrick	Configurations	2001
Fiction and Interaction: How Clicking a Mouse Can Make You Part of a Fictional World	Jill Walker Rettberg		2003
Electronic Literature	Scott Rettberg	Polity	2018
E-Lit in Spanish: Voices of Dissent in a Globalized World	Perla Sassón-Henry	Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures	2017

Teaching Resource using this Critical Writing:

Resource	Teaching Resource Type	Author	Year
Digital Genres: Digital Art, Electronic Literature, and Computer Games (DIKULT 103, Spring 2014)	Syllabus	Judd Morrissey, Álvaro Seiça	2014

Research Collection that references this Critical Writing:

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Electronic Literature, Chapter 3: Hypertext Fiction

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