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Remediation and the Desire for Immediacy

Jay David Bolter
- 01 Mar 2000 - 
- Vol. 6, Iss: 1, pp 62-71
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In this article, the so-called "new media" are assumed to break radically with the aesthetic and cultural traditions of their predecessors, and they often assume that digital media must break radically from the aesthetics and cultural tradition of the past.
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What is new about the so-called 'new media'? Enthusiasts often assume that digital media must break radically with the aesthetic and cultural traditions of their predecessors. However, new media an...

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The Art of Describing. Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century

Ivan Gaskell
- 01 Jan 1984 - 
TL;DR: This is likewise one of the factors by obtaining the soft documents of this the art of describing dutch art in the seventeenth century by online as discussed by the authors. But it will agreed squander the time.
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Serious Games in Language Learning and Teaching: a Theoretical Perspective

TL;DR: The paper makes a theoretical argument for a Serious Games product based on theories of educational design and learning in relation to games and draws on data from two recent research projects that have studied the role of game based activity in children’s digitally based practices in off school contexts.
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Critical perspectives on social media and protest: between control and emancipation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take a critical approach to the relationship between social media and protest, highlighting key issues and concerns in contemporary forms of social media activism, including questions of censorship, surveillance, individualism, and temporality.
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New Media and the Permanent Crisis of Aura

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply Benjamin's concept of aura to new (digital) media, and in particular to mixed reality, a group of technologies that blend computer-generated visual, aural, and textual information into the user's physical environment.
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American Literature and Immediacy: Literary Innovation and the Emergence of Photography, Film, and Television

TL;DR: The search for immediacy, the desire to feel directly connected to people or events, has been a driving force in American literature and media culture for the past two centuries as discussed by the authors.
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The Art of Describing. Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century

Ivan Gaskell
- 01 Jan 1984 - 
TL;DR: This is likewise one of the factors by obtaining the soft documents of this the art of describing dutch art in the seventeenth century by online as discussed by the authors. But it will agreed squander the time.