I also found the material covering "Remediation and Reform" to be revealing. The example that jumped to mind was the online newspaper.
Newspapers, facing declining circulation even before the ushering-in of the digital age, realized they'd be unable to avoid the remediation process, and started to learn about and create an online presence. Now, the grizzled newshound, perhaps a pure caricature of his stereotype, chomping on a cigar and with a press pass stuck into the band of his fedora, might well be -- and probably IS -- filing stories by e-mail, scanning PDFs and capturing audio or shooting video for a multimedia presentation of a story.
In fact, those are new aspects to a modern digital newspaper; a story might be supplemented by a hyperlink to a PDF of a police report, for example, and video is now no longer the purview of TV news, but a common component of newspapers, too. This also opens up the opportunity to sell full-on commercials to what had formerly been print-ad clients.
It is, indeed, a brand-new day in the field of journalism.
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