| As with any remediation, however, the eBook must promise something more than the form that it remediates: it must offer what can be construed as a more immediate, complete, or authentic experience for the reader (80). | Computer graphics are refashioning conventional
television and film (6). |
Portable computers present themselves as new and
improved books:
'notebook' has become a
generic term for these devices, while Apple
Computer has had lines called 'Powerbooks' and 'iBooks' and Hewlett
Pachard has sold 'Omnibooks' (79). |
| For centuries in the ancient world, the papyrus roll, about 25 feet long, constituted a volume.... The codex, which replaced the roll, was more effective in enclosing, protecting, and delimiting the writing it contained (77). | ... a newer medium takes the
place of an older one, borrowing and reorganizing the characteristics
of writing in the older medium and reforming its cultural space ....
[T]he new medium imitates some features of the older medium, but also
makes an implicit or explicit claim to improve on the older one (23). Remediation
This hypertext is based on the ideas of remediation proposed by Jay David Bolter in his book Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext and the Remediation of Print. All of the quotes on this page (with page numbers in parentheses) are from this book. |
The desire to contextualize [email] in this way shows that the implicit model is not written or printed text at all, but face-to-face conversations or perhaps conversation on the telephone (73). |
| ...electronic hypertext offers to remediate and hypermediate the mind.... Theorists from Bourdieu to various feminists, such as Judith Butler, to sociologists, such as Kenneth Gergen, to the now classic postmodernists, Lyotard and Baudrillard, have all... argued for notions of the self that are multiple, fragmented, and in an important sense, material. Some have also begun to argue for a relationship between these postmodern constructions of the self and new media technologies (197). | Related to Bolter's remediation is Jenkins' convergence... |
Find out about the author of this hypertext, Christina Teskey, and why she chose to organize it the way she did. |