Multimodal Response 6: Outlining Remediation

The reading for this response, which is an excerpt from Remediation: Understanding New Media by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, discusses the concept of remediation through a variety of types of media, including film, literature, television, websites, and videogames.

For the first part of your response, take some time to define "remediation" in your own terms, drawing on Bolter and Grusin's explanation. Feel free to make your definition uncertain, asking questions about aspects of remediation that you still don't understand, or troubling the points that Bolter and Grusin make that you disagree with. In order to help ground your definition, draw on an example of remediation that connects to your own research, coursework, or personal exploration of media. What was gained and what was lost in this example of remediation? This portion of the response only needs to be about a paragraph long (4-5 sentences).

In the second part of your response, consider how you'll draw on the principle of remediation in the second major project. You have two (similar) options here for how to approach this:

1. Pick one past project that you're considering remediating, and reflect on two possible ways that you might remediate it. Remember that the project that you're remediating should directly draw on research in some way. For instance, you might choose a research paper that you wrote for a course, and work through ways to remediate it into a video essay or podcast, exploring the possibilities and consequences of each.

2. Pick two past projects that you're considering remediating, and reflect on how you might remediate each. Consider the different possibilities of remediating each project. What challenges would each project present for remediation? What would make this project engaging or interesting to remediate?

Whichever option you choose, draw on the following table to help guide your remediation reflection. Feel free to copy/paste this table (here's a version in Google Docs) and fill it out, or rearrange/rephrase the points and questions in the table in a way that helps you and fits the option that you chose above. You're not required to answer all of the questions in the table, so focus on those that are the most helpful for your project and process. Do aim to answer at least three rows of questions, or answer them all if you find the process generative.