TODAY

1) Let’s look at a few more remixes from the forums

2) Remediation: key ideas (in a nutshell)3) Remediation: examples4) Now we talk5) Brainstorming Inquiry 46) Homework

REMIXES

One of the things we stopped short of last class, while looking at remix examples, was adding the level of rhetorical scrutiny that we have utilized looking at other texts. So let’s do that with a few of the examples from the forum, just to get us warmed up for the day.

REMEDIATION

Quick definition:

Remediation is taking something that appears in one medium and transferring/transforming it into another medium.

It’s that simple, but, like everything, it gets bit more complex.

Let’s look at two key related terms, immediacy and hypermediacy.

Immediacy

Immediacy, in terms of Remediation, is an attempt to make the mediation– or the media– of some deliverable text transparent. In other words, the interface and trappings of the media would disappear, essentially, leaving the user face-to-face with the content.

Actual media cannot, by its nature, perfectly capture immediacy– as Bolter/Grusin tell us, it’s the desire of users to have this “true life” experience. This photo, though, is close.

Hypermediacy

Hypermediacy is the opposite of immediacy–it is a condition where the interface and features of the interface are so clear and apparent that attention is called to them–they become features of the presentation.

Here is an example of hypermediacy. It’s actually a little crazy over-the-top, so I’m going to include a second version of something very much like it that I can explain.

This is a World of Warcraft raid interface, btw. It’s not mine. It sort of scares me.

Remediation…

Exists as the tensions between those two concepts. It is a desire to create more immediacy while allowing for the benefits of hypermediacy.

Important point: by the Bolter/Grusin definition, remediation is about a change in media/delivery. Content should be generally unchanged.

Examples

The next several slides are examples of things that have been remediated.

Let’s take a look at ‘em. See what we can see.

Inquiry 4…

The larger portion of your inquiry four project will involve you remediating your inquiry 3 argument– the second part– into either an audio or video argument.

What I’d like you to do right now is spend a few minutes creating a pro/con list for each medium (audio vs. video). What could you do with your specific argument in each case, and what would you need/what might be the potential pitfalls.

Homework

Remember that our Thursday class will be entirely online. You should be in the Niihka chat room at the beginning of class time.

I would like you to come to the virtual class with the following:

3 Potential ideas of how to remediate– or if you choose, to use remix– to develop your multi-media argument based on your inquiry 3 argument.

Questions you have about the assignment.

Continued…

There is also a reading on Niihka by Anne Wysocki (under Wysocki-Multiple Media).

Read it, and come to class with one key point to share. You will be asked to share it as the first thing we do.

On the off chance that I am not there when class starts, you can begin without me. I will leave a PowerPoint to guide the activities.

YOU ARE EXPECTED TO COMPLETE CLASS EVEN IF I DON’T MAKE IT ON TIME. DO NOT LEAVE!