Remediation and the language of new media

Abstract

Many new-media enthusiasts have inherited from modernist aesthetic theory the assumptions of essentialism and absolute originality. They assume that each medium is constituted by a unique set of essential characteristics and that the task of designers is to explore these characteristics by creating artefacts that will define the medium. Bolter and Grusin's Remediation is a study of intermedial relationships that rejects modernist aesthetics and calls these assumptions into question. Manovich's The Language of New Media does not simply accept these assumptions, but it does seek to derive new-media artistic practice from modernism.

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“…While one-to-many media do still exist, there is the exponential growth of peer-to-peer communication practices and phenomena. In the current era, a minority language media product does not just have one mediation; programmes and events can be remediated (Bolter and Grusin 2000) through sharing, uploading, and linking, and can then become the subject of metalinguistic comment and discussion, as well as the inter-text for future media products. In addition, the decentering of production that has resulted from the evolving technology has in turn resulted in a decentering of media production.…”

Intermediality

“…Digital technologies prompted renewed theoretical and empirical scrutiny of the very idea of media, including examination of the ways in which one medium may reproduce as well as reshape another medium in a process of remediation (Bolter & Grusin, 1999). A key aspect of digital media is that they facilitate distributed processes in which users interact with texts, and with each other through texts.…”

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“…For å utdype hvordan mediene radio og cd samspiller i det aktuelle eksempelet, introduseres begrepene remediering, hypermediering og immedialitet (Bolter & Grusin, 1999). Remediering beskriver en forflytning fra et medium til et annet, og innebaerer i vår sammenheng at cd-platen tar opp i seg noe av radiomediet samtidig som det nye mediet (cd-en) tilfører noe nytt.…”

“…Radiomediet «henger med» (jf. Bolter & Grusin, 1999) når moren hører barnevisene på cd. Sentrale prinsipper i forbindelse med remediering er immedialitet og hypermedialitet.…”