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jenkins book on Participatory Culture

Takes a look at the effect of campaign advertising and the message it sends to its viewers

A follow up book to his first, mean to discuss how hypertext and other electronic writings help to "remediate" print

This video is an interview describing Spychips, a book about RFID tags. This book goes into detail about RFID tags and gives a better description of what Chapter three of The Computer: A Very Short Introduction gave.

This video is an automated short of one of the parts of Brooke Gladstone's book, The Influencing Machine. It is identical to the scene in the book but the added audio and animation made me understand the meaning and feeling behind the scene much more.

This website provides a great summary of the book as well as an explanation of the ideas and theories within the book. It really helped me understand the idea of remediation and its importance in our world.

Copyright: This book explains how to find copyright owners, request permissions, and keep records. It also describes fair use, public domain, and copyright infringement.

Composed with digital tools, created out of word, image, sound, and motion; circulated in digital environment; and consumed across a wide range of digital platforms.

A defense of digital writing against criticism that computers are somehow diminishing writing. Makes the case that similar criticism has been levied against technology in the past.

"Writing today is pervasively and generally digital: composed with digital tools; created out of word, image, sound and motion; circulated in digital environments; and consumed across a wide range of digital platforms." This is a good link describing the significance of digital writing.

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Fair Use and it's benefits

found some interesting things about music, such as as long as you don't stray to far from the orignal work song structures and their lyrics are not protected under the copyright laws.

Milton 18th Century England among other valuable historic examples of copyright

Balance explained using show cased examples, symmetrical balance, and asymmetrical balance.

This site gave a fantastic explanation of balance in web design. I actually think I got more from reading this than I did reading the text book. I loved the visual examples that this gave. Definitely a good read.

Remediation is an insightful book because of Bolter and Grusin's relentless tracking down of implications in the "double logic of remediation" (2) and the concepts of remediation, immediacy, transparent immediacy, hypermediacy, and mediation.

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.

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.