Description
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 this assumption. They argue that new visual media achieve their cultural significance precisely by paying homage to, rivaling, and refashioning such earlier media as perspective painting, photography, film, and television. They call this process of refashioning remediation, and they note that earlier media have also refashioned one another: photography remediated painting, film remediated stage production and photography, and television remediated film, vaudeville, and radio.
Author: Jay David Bolter, Richard Grusin
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 01/06/2000
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.90h x 7.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780262522793
ISBN10: 0262522799
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Media Studies
- Computers | General
- Social Science | Methodology
About the Author
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.