At the beginning of Chapter 2, Bolter and Grusin further mention that the goal of mediation is to attempt realism be it painting to photo to digital photo to film to virtual reality. They go on to say:
It would seem, then, that all mediation is remediation.
Despite the fact that the rest of the chapter and the following chapter seem to focus on art and film, I couldn't help but tie these concepts again into books. Especially this book. Remediation: Understanding New Media is not exempt from the claim above. Essentially Remediation is remediated. From the way the text and white space are used, to the graphics and pictures, the book is an example of many iterations of changes in publishing and visual display of information. But what I found most interesting and completely unique to any other publications is the way the authors have added what amounts to 'hyperlinks' in the text. I found myself reading the text of the book like I read a website. When I got to a 'link' or a page number with a funny little play symbol, I turned to that page to see what they were referencing. I appreciate the creativity of this remediation and I like the reinforcement of the theme.
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