Selections from Bolter & Grusin – Remediation: Understanding New Media
Bolter, J. David , and Richard Grusin. Remediation Understanding New Media. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999. Print. Preface What is remediation? RG coined the term in a meeting in May 1996, describing it as “a way to complicate the notion of ‘repurposing’” that relied on the double logic of immediacy and hypermediacy (more on that later) (viii). Introduction: The Double Logic of Remediation What is this... Read More
Davis et al. – Remix, Play, and Remediation: Undertheorized Composing Practices
Davis, Andrea, et al. “Remix, Play, and Remediation: Undertheorized Composing Practices.” Writing and the Digital Generation: Essays on New Media Rhetoric. Ed. Urbanski, Heather. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2010. 186-97. Print. The authors begin by highlighting how the producer/consumer binary is fraught with inconsistencies in the new digital environment (187). They go on to highlight how meaning is made... Read More
Samples from Rice’s “Hip Hop Pedagogy”
Samples from Jeff Rice’s “The 1963 Hip-Hop Machine: Hip-Hop Pedagogy As Composition” What I want to add to Baker’s pedagogy, however, is an examination of the way hip-hop constructs discourse, the way it produces rhetorical meaning through it’s complex method of digital sampling, and how such rhetoric functions within the scope of argumentation. (454) In hip-hop, the “take whatever you find and use it” principle acts as the dominant... Read More
CCR760 – Datacloud – My Indictment: Dug the Book, What About that Broader Context?
I found this text to be interesting and a bit disconnected. I think that J.E. is grappling with similar themes that have been brought up by other theorists in the past couple of years; most notably, I see the work of articulation as a response to complexity and the multiple enacted subjectivities of the postmodern object. J.E. says as much in his book; however, I think had he worked closer with some Actor-Network theorists like John Law and Bruno... Read More
