"Remediation: Understanding New Media"

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This paper discusses and reviews the book, "Remediation: Understanding New Media," by Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin, in which they try to understand "new media," such as virtual reality, computer graphics and streamed video. The paper discusses how the book is structured in three interrelated parts and describes the content of each part.

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"The book is structured in three interrelated parts, in which we witness a retrospective of the ways in which different media have tried during the years to render reality. The first part, more theoretical than the two others deals with the distinctions to be made between immediacy and hypermediacy. The second one is a more "practical" part. Here, we find studies of contemporary forms of digital media (virtual reality, digital art and photography, television, computer games).The third part, that also includes the conclusion connects the concepts presented in the two previous parts with the individual, by trying to identify the effects this new types of media might have on him. The authors talk here about gender issues and get into the details of the individual in virtual reality."

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