There are three distinct mediums for presentations, oral, print and electronic. Electronic has by far the least amount of boundries of the three. Electronic media allows creators to engage the viewers much more then what can be done with print and oral. For instance, the Remix of Red Riding Hood in a digital story is based off the concept of the oral and printed story, but with an animated electronic medium the viewer now has the ability to participate in the outcome of the story. As stated by Hayles “Just as the twentieth century saw an explosion of interest in the book as a medium, with an impressive canon of artists’ books and other experimental practices exploring the potential of the book as an artistic and literary venue, so electronic literature has seen a growing body of work that interrogates networked and programmable media as the material basis for artistic innovation and creation.” (2 genres of Electronic Literature) Electronic media is giving an imagination and interaction to books in a way that print cannot do.
The medium is the message by Marshall McLuhan is about invisible forces in their environment that are influencing them in the present by arranging ideas of one on one page, and one on the other, which makes us the reader figure out how to mix them together to create our own ideas. This is a good concept for doing a remix and establishes the viewer or reader has to be engaged in the story in order for it to work, and with electronic media allowing the reader to interact and choose the adventure of the story, this is now more possible then ever before.