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"Lev Manovich sites the five principles of New Media as Numerical Presentation, modularity, automation, variability, and transcoding. It is the second category, modularity, with which I seem to take issue" Blog entry, in which the other takes issue with Manovich's "modularity" category.

Remediation: An example of remediation, done by a student, focusing on Space Invaders. Very fun and helps to accompany the idea of the text; one media being represented through another, as well as the response of traditional media in an attempt to challenge new or newer media.

The most important forms of new media are, according to Manovich, database and navigable space.

This video consisted of many stats about how quickly new media has been evolving and expanding. I love this statistics format because it provides amazing facts that don't take much time for me to read and comprehend. This helped me to better understand where technology was, is, and where it's going. This also helped me understand some more facts about new media while keeping my full attention

Remediation is used in music to refashion live versions of media. The live version is recreated and multiplied, creating a studio and synthesized final version of the product.

This website provided a great run down on the book Remediation and the theory behind it. It was a great supplement to the reading and really helped me further my understanding of it. Remediation is something that is constantly going on around us, and is very important to understand. It is the driving force for the progress of our media.

A little summary of The Language of New Media

This video explains the Five principles of New Media with easy examples. The sound is very annoying so I'd turn the volume all the way down.

new media is powerful and it impacts the marketing and advertising of companies.

"Educators today confront an ever-shifting landscape when it comes to Internet technologies and their potential for expanding participatory cultures. Henry Jenkins, director of the Comparative Media Studies department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explores new frameworks for literacy through the lens of participatory culture."

Twitter is now considered the CNN of this generation

MANOVICH. This essay makes a case, as it were, for video games as a viable new media and defends them against stereotyped ideas that consider video games to be pointless and a waste of time. 

Q&A with manovich

"Law provides copyright protection to creative works in order to foster the creation of culture. Its best known feature is protection of owners' rights. But copying, quoting, and generally re-using existing cultural material can be, under some circumstances, a critically important part of generating new culture. "

This site has a really good diagram of the difference between immediacy and hypermediacy. One difference is that immediacy is like a virtual reality while hypermediacy is like tv news reports

Remediation has influenced digital writing because it causes students to rethink how their words are perceived by others. It also influences students to produce media like web pages.

review of manovich

"The word culture has many different meanings.  For some it refers to an appreciation of good literature, music, art, and food." To understand how new media and technology connect to culture, we must understand what culture is. This is a great resource!

I really like how this article ties directly to new media, which connects to what we learn in class everyday. It makes me interested in the book that is being reviewed.

This is an article discussing the idea of remediation and the two concepts of remediation. It is an easy explanation of the excerpt from the book that we had to read.

I know I already shared one page but I thought that this was a good one as well. This blog post really talks about remediation and how it is used in the creation of new digital media as well as what remediation means to the lay person.