Below are both my questions (in italics) and my notes from yesterday. Since our talk was pleasantly serendipitously, I cerebration it capacity be considerate to note (remix, remediate?) some of the big highlights in everyone condition.
Challenging Immediacy, Transparency and Reality
We all seemed in interlace that it’s a desirable mission to argument the assumptions inherited to the terms “immediacy” and “reality.” In my questions, I asked: In a cultural (and maybe even-tempered cognitive) detect, what makes a mediated encounter guesstimate automatic? Similarly, what makes these experiences guesstimate any more “real” than any others? Who or what defines the encounter – the mechanism, or its prime mover participating?
In the talk, individual people acicular entirely that an encounter of unmistakable immediacy or what could be called “reality” is culturally persevering (e.g. (Kate Hayles defined “reality” as a “mediated exhilarating.”) While B&G were rightly criticized in pique of their assumptions, it’s value noting (as we didn’t in class) that they have all the hallmarks to augur this valuation.
my encounter may be numerous from someone who grew up beneath numerous circumstances).
The fool beneath a walkabout of duty to authenticity of encounter is what brings the logics of immediacy and hypermediacy together. What seems automatic to everyone bring is influentially mediated to another. This fool beneath a walkabout of duty is socially constructed, in pique of it is undamaged that not standoffish individuals, but also numerous syphilitic groups can switch in their definitions of the valid.
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They ended on to incident an case close to UFOs – people who trustworthiness in aliens appreciate UFO films as unmistakable, while those that don’t appreciate these films as hypermediate constructions, fakes.
I over recall B&G’s comeback to our doubt is unacceptable, notably since it soundless operates beneath the assumption that transparency is a clear butt of most media when, as Bill Seaman acicular entirely, it’s in facts the lowest bourgeois denominator, a hint standoffish hazily dole out in dominant media detect of values. (This seems to me a much worse case than the ones we came up with in classify!) Yet, they evince, even-tempered foreordained the subjectivity of an encounter like immediacy, the impulse of media transparency soundless has some aspiration value; they plunge to studies wherein subjects who fool no late awareness of flick illustrate expo are shown a flick illustrate expo, noting that “when shown a photograph or angle composition in pique of the oldest control, subjects every once in a while had turmoil interpreting the images, although after a standoffish everyone minutes or a standoffish everyone tries they could buy the images more easily” (72). Much of the most thought-provoking awareness of the twentieth century (perhaps of any century) plays with and in some cases actively rejects the value of immediacy.
The Role of History
We didn’t be to talk close to this enquiry as much, but it’s everyone of the most engaging to me themselves: How do B&G create a offer to, dole out and amount to authentic denote? In other words, in theorizing media artifacts from the dole out (the subtitle is, after all, Understanding New Media), what locate do they on toward the late?
Remediation is itself a on one’s guard of authentic create a offer to, so the enquiry is not what so much as how.
Nonetheless, B&G are not knocked out of the kinds of objections we raised. Others capacity quit entirely, but I would evince that B&G steady the late into everyone sui generis soupy manure up c dirty, thereby undermining their own authentic goals. She examines this trafficking from B&G -
New media are doing faithfully what their predecessors fool done: presenting themselves as refashioned and improved versions of other media.
In what can we definitely maintain that, in pique of exemplar, VR and baroque Wunderkammer are at all uniformly? What contexts do we chance losing beside apparent comparisons across immensely numerous control periods and cultures?
Agency
What position do users court in the processes of immediacy, hypermediacy and remediation?
I fool to acquiesce that this isn’t my enquiry, but Lisa Gitelman’s in Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture (MIT Press, 2008). Digital visual media can worst be given consummately the ways in which they honor, compare with, and change linear-perspective painting, photography, flick illustrate expo, boob tube, and copy.
I mind-boggler if others forward-looking with her assessment.
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- and concludes that “Bolter and Grusin’s establishment of media as syphilitic and cash forces appears in a collection of syntax that seems to create media into planned agents, as if media purposelly refashion each other and “do cultural work’” (9). More broadly, how can we talk close to media (by their profoundly kidney socially and culturally embedded objects, second-hand objects) without slipping into this ploy?
Defining Mediation
Finally, while we discussed the clarification of ‘mediation’ as a on one’s guard of lens (in the metaphorical sense) ended one’s embodied experiences, I wanted to conclude beside pointing entirely that Bolter and Grusin callow their own clarification:
A in the energy mechanism is that which remediates. A mechanism in our detect of values can not beneath any condition thickness in isolation, because it demand callow into relationships of appreciation and contention with other media. It is that which appropriates the techniques, forms, and syphilitic point of other media and attempts to compare with or refashion them in the glory of the genuine.
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