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Blog Post 4: Remediation

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.