Remediation

Remediation Discussion Questions

1. What is the double logic of remediation?
2. What does Bolter mean when he writes that the purpose of virtual reality is to disappear? How does this make VR immersive?
3. How does Bolter relate immediacy to linear perspective?
4. What does Bolter mean when he writes that digital graphics are automatic and how is this important to his discussion of immediacy?
5. In what way can interaction add to the immediacy of a digital animation?
6. How are windows on a computer interface an example of hypermediacy.
7. How is a photomontage an example of hypermediacy?
8. Why does the new medium depend on the older medium that it remediates?
9. What does Bolter mean when he writes that “The excess of media becomes an authentic experience … precisely because it does not feel compelled to refer to anything outside itself?
10. Do you agree that all mediation is remediation?
11. What is an example of how TV remediates the Web?
12. How does the medium of the digital audio file reform the older medium of the phonograph record?