Remediation by Jay David Bolter - ISBN: 9780262522793
Paperback
This book argues that a new visual media achieve their cultural significance precisely by paying homage to, rivalling, and refashioning such earlier media as perspective painting, photography, film, and television.

Remediation

Understanding New Media

  • Paperback

    312 pages

  • Release Date

    6 January 2000

Summary

A new framework for considering how all media constantly borrow from and refashion other media.Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new- they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web, virtual reality, and computer graphics must divorce themselves from earlier media for a new set of aesthetic and cultural principles. In this richly illustrated study, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin offer a theory of mediation for our digital age that challenges th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262522793
ISBN-10:0262522799
Author:Jay David Bolter, Richard Grusin
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:312
Release Date:6 January 2000
Weight:522g
Dimensions:229mm x 178mm x 13mm
Series:The MIT Press
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Critics Review

The authors do a splendid job of showing precisely how technologies like computer games, digital photography, film television, the Web, and virtual reality all turn on the mutually constructive strategies of generating immediacy and making users hyperaware of the media themselves…The authors lay out a provocative theory of contemporary selfhood, one that draws on and modifies current notions of the ‘virtual’ and ‘networked’ human subject. Clearly written and not overly technical, this book will interest general readers, students, and scholars engaged with current trends in technology.

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About The Author

Jay David Bolter

Jay David Bolter is Wesley Chair of New Media and Codirector of the Augmented Media Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Remediation- Understanding New Media (with Richard Grusin), Windows and Mirrors- Interaction Design, Digital Art and the Myth of Transparency (with Diane Gromala), both published by the MIT Press, and other books.Richard Grusin is Professor and Chair of English at Wayne State University in Detroit.

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