11.10.2011

3.2 - Execise: Thinking about remediation – what are your thoughts?


  • Give an example of some kind of “new media”

The Internet is one of the most important media in time. Mostly because the users have the ability to be passive and more aggressive in this media. Even though there are unlimited possibilities through this media, will it still be kind of an authentic experience. Because, even though it’s possible to live-stream and/or see videos from the real life (not animations) is it not possible for the user to outlive what they see at that exact moment.



Through the internet it is possible to make some kind of “exception” without thinking that way. For instance a smartphone (media 1) use the internet (media 2) to search on youtube.com (media 3), and maybe looking at movie about televisions (media 4), and in this television you’ll see an old movie (media 5), because the television is old etc. So without realizing it, people can search (through the internet) and by that update older media’s.  Even though the internet is “an old media” it will rebirth every single time it touch a new media, like smartphones, consoles (Playstation, X-box and Wii), pc and other kind of tables/televisions. So this media         


  • How does this media distinguish itself from the old media?


Old media’s like television and theater, makes the person become passive and prevent them from interact. The internet is multi-media, sorted by customer to consumer or consumer to customer. 





  • Where on the "remedation spectrum" can you place the media?

1 kommentar:

  1. The lack of authentic experience on the internet; Don't you think that this is possible? Not that it's possible to make it immediate in the VR-sense but maybe you would be exited, overwhelmed or drawn to the media – and thereby it could be called authentic.

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