Remediation

After reading about remediation and learning about this object “the wire”, I was able to ponder on many things that I felt deserved more attention. “The wire is just a fanciful extrapolation of contemporary virtual reality, with its goal of unmediated visual and aural experience; and the proliferation of media in 2K L.A. is only a slight exaggeration of our current media-rich environment, in which digital technologies are proliferating faster than our cultural, legal, or educational institutions can keep up with them.” This quote stood out to me most because it spoke about media in our culture today which is what I think is most important when discussing remediation. Because different technologies are coming about so swiftly in our society today, we have to consider why this is happening at such a rapid pace. An easy answer to run to for this question would simply be remediation. But when we further define what remediation is, we find that it is more of correction or improvement to something that is not good enough.


 Bolter and Grusin write, “Our culture wants both to multiply its media and to erase all traces of mediation: it wants to erase its media in the very act of multiplying technologies of mediation.” My understanding of this is that our culture wants to get rid of having to turn on the television or log on to the internet to be informed and engaged with new information and to stay in tune with all of the current events. The wire is an item that can push that effort seeing that putting this device over your head will allow you to receive direct information.