Media and Remediation

• Definitions of medium (or media)
• Remediation [one medium (WWW) takes over, rivals, and changes another (TV) Example: Westwind Fall of the House of Usher]
• Media Convergence -- the example of telephone, television, and computer
• A Media-based Look at the History of Computing -- computers seen as having different functions
• New Media as Immediate
• Immediacy [= transparency; i.e., viewers do not notice medium and believe they are contacting reality] vs. hypermediacy [= opacity -- that is, one notices the medium]

Last updated: 20 July 2002