Remediation!

In class today, after we discuss Bolter and Grusin's introduction to remediation, immediacy and hypermediacy, we are going to identify and classify features of different media, and talk about how those features affect our experience of "texts" - using Lankshear & Knobel's definition of tex- in those media.

After we have some guidelines for how different media shape the expectations and experiences of "readers" we are going to think about some more complex examples in terms of a single text: Star Wars.

Below are some "hybrid," multimedia presentations of what started out as a movie and was rendered as a book (check out Amazon to see just how many "versions" of the "book" there are now) and is now. . .

Star Wars Revelations (film)

Star wars legos

Darth Vader playing harmonica

Star Wars Gangsta Rap

Lucas Response to fandoms' creative appropriation of his "property"

Clone wars online comics