Internet Speed and Reading

Internet Speed on campus at Clemson (Lightsey Bridge):
download results: 1312 kbps
upload results: 1478 kbps

Remediation concerns the creation of new media by basing it on the old. My favorite example from the reading is the one relating the concept of remediation to encyclopedias. One year, my grandparents bought a set of Britannica encyclopedias for me and my sister. By the following year, the same books were collecting dust and we used the Encarta encyclopedia disk that came with out Macintosh because it was newer (although the same information was found in the books).

On a side note, the sections on immediacy and transparency reminded me of the 3-D attractions at theme parks. The designers do a great job of persuading the audience that it has an active role in the media. They even use prompts such as moving floors, spraying water at the viewers, and having the characters talk directly to the audience. When you think about it, 3-D theme park attractions really aren't very different from Shakespeare's plays and actors/actresses in the plays, especially when narrators were used. The narrators talked directly to the audience just as characters in the 3-D theme park movies typically do.