Remediation (1-34) and Digital Narrative

Well, I'll agree with everyone else in saying this reading was certainly more philosophical than I imagined something about technology would be. But that irony goes along with the message that B&G are trying to get from us. Much of what the authors are discussing is the progress of media towards reality. To do this we must define what reality is, which turns out to be an interesting philosophical argument. The reading is dense but the way the authors go about the subject is appropriate. I thought the sentence on page 24 was very interesting: the authors write "the computer so far surpasses other technologies... that the history of earlier media has little relevance." This is so until further and inevitable, according to the authors, remediation of the computer itself. I thought the authors constructed very vivd examples of remediation. For instance, the movement from camera obscura, to manual camera, to digital camera is a good example of transparency. In theory, the basis of something as simple as a camera obscura is enough to base thousands of years of increased technology to replicate this archaic form of photorealism.


My example of a digital narrative is...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGtmOyhq_mY
(A sad ending, I know)