Tuesday, JANUARY 27TH

What are the different reasons for media in the first place?

If immediacy leads to hypermediacy, will we/how will we know if we ever reach the best and most authentic experience ever?

Will there be a point when we don't want to remediate everything? For example, sometimes when we are watching TV we don't want to feel anything. We just want to be doing a mindless, leisurely activity while having no thoughts or reactions in order to unwind and think about other things. Would the wire that was discussed be able to make us feel "nothing?"

Media such as CNN is often viewed as useful because it provides us with information about our society. However, it can also be viewed as destructive, imposing ideas and information in to our heads that are violent and depressing. At what point do we abandon certain forms of media even if they are readily available to us?

What does it mean that our culture "wants to erase its media in the very act of multiplying them?"

The authors claim that television can and does refashion itself to resemble the World Wide Web. In what ways?

What happens if the remediation fails? Do we revert back to the original mediation or do we ignore its practical uses just to have the newly improved remediation?