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2. TODAY
1) Let’s look at a few more remixes from the
forums
2) Remediation: key ideas (in a nutshell)
3) Remediation: examples
4) Now we talk
5) Brainstorming Inquiry 4
6) Homework

3. REMIXES
One of the things we stopped short of last
class, while looking at remix examples, was
adding the level of rhetorical scrutiny that we
have utilized looking at other texts. So let’s
do that with a few of the examples from the
forum, just to get us warmed up for the day.

4. REMEDIATION
Quick definition:
Remediation is taking something that
appears in one medium and
transferring/transforming it into another
medium.
It’s that simple, but, like everything, it gets bit
more complex.
Let’s look at two key related terms,
immediacy and hypermediacy.

5. Immediacy
Immediacy, in terms of Remediation, is an
attempt to make the mediation– or the
media– of some deliverable text transparent.
In other words, the interface and trappings of
the media would
disappear, essentially, leaving the user face-
to-face with the content.

6. Actual media
cannot, by its
nature,
perfectly
capture
immediacy– as
Bolter/Grusin
tell us, it’s the
desire of users
to have this
“true life”
experience.
This photo,
though, is
close.

7. Hypermediacy
Hypermediacy is the opposite of immediacy–
it is a condition where the interface and
features of the interface are so clear and
apparent that attention is called to them–
they become features of the presentation.

8. Here is an
example of
hypermediacy.
It’s actually a
little crazy over-
the-top, so I’m
going to include
a second version
of something
very much like it
that I can
explain.
This is a World of
Warcraft raid
interface, btw.
It’s not mine. It
sort of scares
me.

10. Remediation…
Exists as the tensions between those two
concepts. It is a desire to create more
immediacy while allowing for the benefits of
hypermediacy.
Important point: by the Bolter/Grusin
definition, remediation is about a change in
media/delivery. Content should be generally
unchanged.

11. Examples
The next several slides are examples of things
that have been remediated.
Let’s take a look at ‘em. See what we can see.

20. Inquiry 4…
The larger portion of your inquiry four project
will involve you remediating your inquiry 3
argument– the second part– into either an
audio or video argument.
What I’d like you to do right now is spend a
few minutes creating a pro/con list for each
medium (audio vs. video). What could you do
with your specific argument in each case,
and what would you need/what might be the
potential pitfalls.

21. Homework
Remember that our Thursday class will be
entirely online. You should be in the Niihka
chat room at the beginning of class time.
I would like you to come to the virtual class
with the following:
3 Potential ideas of how to remediate– or if
you choose, to use remix– to develop your
multi-media argument based on your inquiry
3 argument.
Questions you have about the assignment.

22. Continued…
There is also a reading on Niihka by Anne
Wysocki (under Wysocki-Multiple Media).
Read it, and come to class with one key point to
share. You will be asked to share it as the first
thing we do.
On the off chance that I am not there when
class starts, you can begin without me. I will
leave a PowerPoint to guide the activities.
YOU ARE EXPECTED TO COMPLETE CLASS EVEN
IF I DON’T MAKE IT ON TIME. DO NOT LEAVE!