Remediation

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The way news is broadcasted on television has changed a lot since the early 90’s.  The 1990 ABC World news clip had a much more simple and straightforward manner to it, whereas the 2008 broadcast was busy and multifaceted.  On a visual level, the ABC video was toned down with a single view, the news anchor presents himself warmly so as to give the viewer a sense of personal connection.  In the second video, there are several camera views and those speaking are doing so in a way that feels detached.  The television screen is also covered in other information and or news.  The significant increase in activity and information gave me anxiety as it makes you feel like you need to hurry up and grab every bit of information you see.  Also, the dialog is more superficial in context and brief in delivery.

 

Bolter and Grusin noted “television news programs also show the influence of the graphical user interface when they divide the screen into tow or more frames and place text and numbers over and around the framed video images” (p.189).  I thought the example of what visually holds the viewers interest when looking at modern art was an interesting comparison.  While a work of art is compositionally created with the intent of keeping the eye interested, the news interface has the opposite effect on me.  It is too much information in my opinion and I find myself tuning it out completely.

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Week 5

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The first YouTube video of the ABC world news was really broad like. It was nothing compared to the news today. Almost no color, no music, no sound effects, no transition like slides, etc. The other video clips that include Obama and Oprah contain everything listed above – color, music, sound effects, etc. The differences between these two videos are simple, news seem more realistic with all the graphics nowadays. The old news has no hooks or attention grabbers other than the tone of Peter Jennings’ telling his audience what to know about. Unlike Oprah, she informs the audience with a pleasure, more relaxed tone. Within 18 years, these inventions of technology just keep growing. Bolter and Grusin both mention that “immediacy is supposed to make this computer interface “natural rather than arbitrary,” (67). They also agree that “in order to create a sense of presence, virtual reality should come as close as possible to our daily visual experience. Its graphic space should be continuous and full of objects and should fill the viewer’s field of vision without rupture.” (67). I can’t explain how much this sums it all up, but if you look at it, it’s true. In the Oprah/Obama video, there’s everything in a newsroom that could possibly take someone’s interest. This is the “virtual reality” that comes as colas as possible to daily visual experience. The old news video, showed more of the “natural more than arbitrary. I agree with Bolter and Grusin on the quotes that I chose. The quotes are more likely to explain the differences between the videos.

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News and Remediation

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When I reviewed the news broadcast 1990 and the news broadcast 2008, I realized there are definitely some noticeable changes. For instant, in the news broadcast 1990, the screen was only for the reporter. After his talk, they could show the view the video or the current event scenes. “Its raw ingredients are images, sound, text, animation and video, which can be brought together in any combination”(Remediation 31). It was pretty straight and solid orientations for the news broadcast 1990; one single thing happened at the time. That way, they combined to become the news broadcast at that time.

In the news broadcast 2008, there could be many reporters at the same screen and they all could talk about one subject. More than that, they could be minimized and moved to the left or right of the screen for showing the related video while the reporters were talking. Besides, the reporter could move anywhere that makes the news more interesting. “These devices, characterized by multiple images, moving images, or sometimes moving observers, seem to have operated under both these logics at the same time, as they incorporated transparent immediacy within hypermediacy”(Remediation 37). The news broadcast 2008 applied these logics very well and efficiently.

“The computer always intervenes and make its presence felt in some way, perhaps because the viewer must click on a button or slide a bar to view a whole picture or perhaps because the digital image appears grainy of with untrue colors. Transparency, however, remains the goal”(Remediation 46). However, the news broadcast 1990 and 2008 still had the same main goal; it was proving and updating accuracy information for the viewers. The technology has changes but the news was remaining the same.

 

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Remediation

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The news media was vastly different and trying to hit on the same topics as they were discussing politics and I like what the guy had to say on the second video “Oprah is wearing a white dress in dirty political water.” The media has become less of a real news source then they once were as “Media have the same claim to reality as more tangible cultural artifacts; photographs, films, and computer applications are as real as airplanes and buildings. p.65” which are ever changing and not always for the best. The first news segment was broadcast on the old analogy/digital signal but was not available in high definition like the second news segment which could be viewed in both analogy/digital and HD. “The logic of transparent immediacy is also at work in nonimmersive digital graphics-that is, in two-and three-dimensional images projected on to traditional computer, film, or television screens. Digital graphics have become tremendously popular and lucrative and In tact are leading to a new cultural definition of the computer. p.67” This seems to be the driving force to see shows and movies in better color and to be more realistic like 3D, things have to be bigger and better than before. New technology is not always a good thing, as some of the old technology worked just fine. Like the saying goes “If it is not broke, don’t fix it” this is so true and works as a very good philosophy that we should live by as not everything needs to be improved upon.

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Blog Post #4

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@JaredAbrahamWSU

 

In the two examples of ABC World News and the Oprah Winfrey CNN clips there were many differences. To me the biggest, and most obvious, difference was the picture quality. In the ABC clip the video appeared to be shot on some kind of low resolution film. In the Oprah Winfrey clip it looked like CNN was using digital Hi-definition cameras. Another large difference between the two was the narration. In the Peter Jennings ABC World News clip the narration was more monotone than the reporting. At one point reminding me of the old Walt Disney clips that would be showing off the plans for Disneyland. The ABC World News clip also seemed less biased, they were just telling you what was happening, instead of giving their opinion on the subject. In the CNN Oprah Winfrey clip, it seemed like there was a lot of confrontation between the news contributors,  which ABC didn’t even have in their clip. Both channels had some B-roll clips they played while the narration and debating were going on, the only difference was the Oprah Winfrey clip didn’t really have a story in the video. Whereas the ABC World News Clip relied heavily on the video to convey the story they were trying to tell. As far as New Media being “offered as an improvement” (Bolton and Grusin, pg. 79), I think the argument could go both ways. The technology is better by far in the newer clip, but I much prefer the unbiased story telling in the older clip.

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Remediation In the News

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@MyDtcAccount – Jonathan Crabtree

 

Change will always be a part of our society. Whether it be technology, people, or places, everything is in a constant state of transformation. Some for the better, some…not so much. One thing that is evident, however, is that the change in technology reflects the society of the time period. By looking at technology from the past and comparing it to today’s technology, one can see the remediation – “the representation of one medium in another” (78) – clearly and observe how much it has changed. Bolter and Grusin have the same idea, saying that “the practices of contemporary media constitutes a lens through which we can view the history of remediation” (66). For example, looking at a broadcast of ABC World News showed a simplified approach that encouraged the viewer to focus on one thing at the time. In contrast, the 2008 broadcast had multiple videos, pictures, and headlines all going together at the same time. Media is a good indicator of society, and it’s obvious that America has transformed from a patient audience that watches the news one story at a time into an audience that demands the news as quickly as possible, sometimes by listening and reading two stories at once.

 

Although the medium of the news has changed quite a bit in the past couple decades, there are still many similarities. As stated earlier, remediation is “the REPRESENTATION of one medium in another” (78), meaning that the new medium is not an original, but simply an advanced copy. Bolter and Grusin also argue that remediation “ensures that the older medium cannot be entirely effaced” (79), no matter how many years pass, or how many changes it undergoes.

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Blog Post 4: Remediation

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News differences: 1990 to 2008

The primary difference I found was the narrators. In 1990, there was a constant change in the screens to other people who did reports and focused only on them until their report was finished; however in 2008, they would cut the screen to show a full picture of the person they were introducing but later they would turn directly back to their news anchor and then add the other people in separate boxes near the news anchor for further discussion on the topic.

 

This is what I would like to focus on in Bolter and Grusin’s idea of remediation. First, one needs to define remediation. From Bolter and Grusin’s book, remediation can be defined as the remake of any old media into a new form but maintains some of the old medium in which it originated from. This comes from the quote, “the representation of one medium in another” (339). The medium in this case is the method of relaying information from other people. In 1990, the people were shown originally to discuss whatever they had to discuss with no interaction from any other person aside from the narrator who would reiterate what they were saying. In 2008, this old medium of relaying information was changed to involve other news anchors and also other people unrelated to the staff of the news company. With this remediated medium, the people could now discuss the information and talk to one other at that time point rather than showing premade videos of people whom they interview.

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Remediation through the Ages

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@Heather94720356

The ABC World news broadcast was conducted in a singular more simple style. There was only one person speaking and commenting at a time and the network at that time used text written out in note taking form to illustrate and thoroughly explain to the viewers a step by step explanation on what was happening in their story. The broadcast was strictly script and not open opinion or debate like news today.  Also the news was broadcasted as if on a schedule, one story at a time as in today multiple stories are broadcasted even ones that aren’t mentioned by the news anchor. They talk and debate about one major issue and bring up others to support their arguments that occurred in the past, and in the 90’s there was  no discussion or future prediction or even critically educated opinions. It  was very interesting to notice that Bolter and Grusin had grasped this concept when they formed the article on remediation. In that article they specifically pointed out that the news uses “graphical user interface…” it also illustrates that today, news broadcast on our televisions resemble a multimedia computer application more than it does an ordinary television broadcast that we saw in the ABC Broadcast in the 1990’s.

The differences and evolution of electronic remediation now compared to ten, twenty years ago demonstrate the growth of electro technology and style today. It was mentioned in the article that its “creators of the other electronic remediation seem to want to emphasize the difference rather than erase it.” In which I thought was an interesting concept, it clicked in my mind that we creators in the media world are not trying to change the portrayal of media, but rather build on it, give it a new perspective and call it their own by adding their “flavor” to it.

 

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Blog Post 4

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Watching the news from the 1990s was interesting to compare to news today. The first thing I noticed is that there was not a scrolling news and stock data on the bottom of the screen. The news also seemed to be much more about the interview and lead in to the story versus multiple shots of b roll and visual images. It seemed much more simple. This is probably due to the fact streaming video had not been invented yet so getting video quickly was not as possible due to editing the 8mm film everything was recorded on. I enjoyed the commercials from the 90s too. They relied more on sincere acting and camera angles like in the UPS commercial and lacked the special effects used in commercials today. The commercial for the cold medicine with Mike Ditka had hand drawn effects to show the areas the medicine affected the body They seemed a little cheesier too then commercials of today. According to Bolton and Grusin, “new media is offered as an improvement” (pg. 79) This is true to news of today. With the Oprah news clip they tied in 3 different people in different places talking about Obama all at once, which was seamless and easy. This was not as easy to do back in the 1990s. The news is much more interactive now with lots more up to date b-roll, twitter feeds, blog and comment feeds, and is heavily driven by digital technology.

What a blast from the past netscape navigator! I remember using that program when it came out, then Microsoft killed it by copying it and calling it internet explorer and stopped selling their operating systems. Same story with word perfect… Gotta love a good monopoly!

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Remediation

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Some might not have noticed a very big difference between the two broadcasts except that the 2008 one has more color, flash and movement going on and around the commentators. For me the biggest difference is the quality of the reporting. The 1990 cast spends over seven minutes on one topic and covers multiple facets of it with actual information. Whereas the 2008 cast is only three and half minutes long with the time being discussed by ‘expert’ contributors that supply their own opinions and not really reporting actual facts, all the while distracting the viewer with multiple videos jumping back and forth and a ticker scrolling along the bottom. Bolter and Grusin make an interesting point when they state:

“With reuse comes a necessary redefinition, but there may be no conscious interplay between media. The interplay happens, if at all, only for the reader or viewer who happens to know both versions and can compare them.”

People may notice the changes visually but may not notice the quality of the information has dwindled. The news casts of today have reused the traditional model of an anchor but not the integrity in reporting quality news. I remember watching the news when I was younger and it having a more serious tone and integrity whereas today it seems anyone can be a broadcaster and accuracy is not required. Today when you watch the news the stories are short and barely touch the surface, facts are not checked as rigorously and there is always something else on the screen to grab your attention, to cater to the short attention span of today.

Audra Mann | @WSUVcollegeMom

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