Week 9 - B&G 212-271

This reading was somewhat confusing, especially when it got to the section on self. I got the overall gist of how people have six different possibilities of using media, but was almost completely lost to the segments on remediating one's body and the Cartesian Ego. On another note, the sections about convergence and ubiquitous computing made sense to me. As I read it, I thought about a newer episode of Scooby Doo in which the villian was actually the computerized house where they were located. The computer had been created to perform various tasks for the homeowner without his orders. The computer mainframe was so advanced to the point that it was autonomous. This section also made me think of the Jetsons and how everything in their house was computer-operated. Essentially, the examples given in the book helped me relate how immediacy and hypermediacy functioned within these two examples.