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====Remediation==== | ====Remediation==== | ||
Remediation is the process through which new media forms borrow elements from older media forms and transform and re-contextualize them. As media evolves, so do the ways users can consume it. When first introduced, remediation was described as a type of reformation such as taking a paper letter and turning it into an email.{{sfn|Bolter|Grusin|1999|p=59}}Today, remediation of a digital document often adds into user-experience by enhancing the document. Remediation can look like making a document more accessible by adding a text-to-speech feature for users with poor vision or adding a tutorial to an electronic manual. | Remediation is the process through which new media forms borrow elements from older media forms and transform and re-contextualize them. As media evolves, so do the ways users can consume it. When first introduced, remediation was described as a type of reformation such as taking a paper letter and turning it into an email.{{sfn|Bolter|Grusin|1999|p=59}}Today, remediation of a digital document often adds into user-experience by enhancing the document. Remediation can look like making a document more accessible by adding a text-to-speech feature for users with poor vision or adding a tutorial to an electronic manual. | ||
This can be simplified into two key principals: | |||
* '''Immediacy and Hypermediacy:''' Immediacy refers to the desire to transcend a medium, while hypermediacy takes the medium and infuses it through the new medium. | |||
* '''Transparent and Opaque Media:''' Transparent media allows the content to take center stage, while opaque media makes users aware of the medium's presence. | |||
Overall, remediation is necessary to create a multimodal document in the digital age. | |||
=='''Pedagogical Approaches'''== | =='''Pedagogical Approaches'''== | ||
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* {{cite book |last=Balzotti |first=Jon |date=2022 |title=Technical Communication: A Design-Centric Approach |edition= 2nd |url= |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780367438302 }} | * {{cite book |last=Balzotti |first=Jon |date=2022 |title=Technical Communication: A Design-Centric Approach |edition= 2nd |url= |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780367438302 }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Barr |first=Chris |date=2010 |title=The Yahoo! Style Guide |url= |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's }} | * {{cite book |last=Barr |first=Chris |date=2010 |title=The Yahoo! Style Guide |url= |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's }} | ||
*{{cite book |last=Bolter |first=Jay David |last2=Grusin |first2=Richard A. |date=1999 |title=Remediation: Understanding New Media |url=https://archive.org/details/remediationunder00bolt |location= Cambridge, MA |publisher= MIT Press |pages= | *{{cite book |last=Bolter |first=Jay David |last2=Grusin |first2=Richard A. |date=1999 |title=Remediation: Understanding New Media |url=https://archive.org/details/remediationunder00bolt |location= Cambridge, MA |publisher= MIT Press |pages= 59|isbn= 9781491960202 |author-link= |ref=}} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Carroll |first=Brian |date=2010 |title=Writing for Digital Media |url= |location=New York |publisher=Routledge }} | * {{cite book |last=Carroll |first=Brian |date=2010 |title=Writing for Digital Media |url= |location=New York |publisher=Routledge }} | ||
* {{cite book |last1=Coco |first1=Pete |last2=Torres |first2=M. Gabriella |date=2014 |editor-last1=Dougherty |editor-first1=Jack |editor-last2=O'Donnell |editor-first2=Tennyson |title=<i>Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning</i> |publisher=University of Michigan Press |pages=175-188 |chapter=“Writing as Curation: Using a ‘Building’ and ‘Breaking’ Pedagogy to Teach Culture in the Digital Age" |chapter-url=https://epress.trincoll.edu/webwriting/chapter/cocotorres }} | * {{cite book |last1=Coco |first1=Pete |last2=Torres |first2=M. Gabriella |date=2014 |editor-last1=Dougherty |editor-first1=Jack |editor-last2=O'Donnell |editor-first2=Tennyson |title=<i>Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning</i> |publisher=University of Michigan Press |pages=175-188 |chapter=“Writing as Curation: Using a ‘Building’ and ‘Breaking’ Pedagogy to Teach Culture in the Digital Age" |chapter-url=https://epress.trincoll.edu/webwriting/chapter/cocotorres }} | ||