Teri's Question!

1. What does the author mean when he says," All current media function as remediators and that remediation offers us a means of interpreting the work of earlier media as well?"

I think that he means that everything has to start as something. Nothing can just magically create itself. Everything that has been created is a remediation of the original idea that it is based off of. All of the current media that we think of such as television and computers have been remediated off of other media such as radio and newspapers. Without the radio and newspapers, we could have never just jumped straight to such high-tech devices as flat screen TVs and lap tops. These new remediations offer us a chance to look back at the previous media that we were using and analyze them based on their individual advantages and disadvantages. For example, reading a newspaper online saves paper and space, but it also take away from the personal design and style that a paper newspaper might have offered. We would have never known the difference if the internet hadn't offered newspapers, but since they do we tend to look back and think about how this has either added convenience to our lives or added stress. By being able to interpret the work of earlier media, we can make further changes and remediations. I think that the remediation process is never ending and that there will never be a perfect project that can not be updated or remodeled.