Tuesday, November 11, 2008

What are the two paradoxes as discussed in Mediation and Remediation?

One of the paradoxes that Bolter mentions in his piece is that hypermedia could ever be thought of as achieving the unmediated. Images and sounds always bombared the viewer or listener, and taking away these goes against how over time these images and sounds have been increasing and increasing. Bolter also mentions is how people avert their gaze while viewing something. the example that he uses is MTV, and how the viewer does not have a fixed gaze, it is going back and forth and is not fixated. Another paradox that Bolter mentions is how hypermedia strives for immediacy, transparent digital technologies always end up being remediations, even as, indeed precisely because they appear to deny mediation. By erasing certain things, it takes away from the original meaning or intent of the original piece.

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