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Creators of other electronic remediations seem to want to emphasize the difference rather than erase it. In these cases, the electronic version is offered as an improvement, although the new is still justified in terms of the old and seeks to remain faithful to the older medium's character. There are various degrees of fidelity. Encyclopedias on CD- ROM, such as Microsoft's Encarta and Grolier's Electronic Encyclopedia, seek to improve on printed encyclopedias by providing not only text and graphics, but also sound and video, and they feature electronic searching and linking capabilities
Creators of other electronic remediations seem to want to emphasize the difference rather than erase it. In these cases, the electronic version is offered as an improvement, although the new is still justified in terms of the old and seeks to remain faithful to the older medium's character. There are various degrees of fidelity. Encyclopedias on CD- ROM, such as Microsoft's Encarta and Grolier's Electronic Encyclopedia, seek to improve on printed encyclopedias by providing not only text and graphics, but also sound and video, and they feature electronic searching and linking capabilities
Source type: pictureInfo: First edition of Microsoft Encarta - 1993
Original size: 1280x960 px. Edit
Creators of other electronic remediations seem to want to emphasize the difference rather than erase it. In these cases, the electronic version is offered as an improvement, although the new is still justified in terms of the old and seeks to remain faithful to the older medium's character. There are various degrees of fidelity. Encyclopedias on CD- ROM, such as Microsoft's Encarta and Grolier's Electronic Encyclopedia, seek to improve on printed encyclopedias by providing not only text and graphics, but also sound and video, and they feature electronic searching and linking capabilities
Creators of other electronic remediations seem to want to emphasize the difference rather than erase it. In these cases, the electronic version is offered as an improvement, although the new is still justified in terms of the old and seeks to remain faithful to the older medium's character. There are various degrees of fidelity. Encyclopedias on CD- ROM, such as Microsoft's Encarta and Grolier's Electronic Encyclopedia, seek to improve on printed encyclopedias by providing not only text and graphics, but also sound and video, and they feature electronic searching and linking capabilities
Source type: pictureInfo: Grolier's Academic American Encyclopedia on Viewtron (1983)
Original size: 432x342 px. Edit
Source type: pictureYet because they are presenting dis- crete, alphabetized articles on technical subjects, they are still recognizably in the tradition of the printed encyclopedia since the eighteenth- century Encyclopédie and Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Yet because they are presenting dis- crete, alphabetized articles on technical subjects, they are still recognizably in the tradition of the printed encyclopedia since the eighteenth- century Encyclopédie and Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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Source type: pictureInfo: Extract from the frontispiece of the Encyclopédie (1772)
Original size: 1000x1558 px. Edit
Yet because they are presenting discrete, alphabetized articles on technical subjects, they are still recognizably in the tradition of the printed encyclopedia since the eighteenth-century Encyclopédie and Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Yet because they are presenting discrete, alphabetized articles on technical subjects, they are still recognizably in the tradition of the printed encyclopedia since the eighteenth-century Encyclopédie and Encyclopaedia Britannica.
In the early 1990s, the Voyager Company published series of "Expanded Books" on CD-ROM, an eclectic set of books originally written for printed publication, including Jurassic Park and Brave New World.
In the early 1990s, the Voyager Company published series of "Expanded Books" on CD-ROM, an eclectic set of books originally written for printed publication, including Jurassic Park and Brave New World.
Source type: pictureInfo: Jurassic Park - Expanded Book / Cover (1993)
Original size: 817x1257 px. Edit
Source type: pictureInfo: Jurassic Park - Expanded Book / inside (1993)
Original size: 1248x940 px. Edit
In the early 1990s, the Voyager Company published series of "Expanded Books" on CD-ROM, an eclectic set of books originally written for printed publication, including Jurassic Park and Brave New World.
In the early 1990s, the Voyager Company published series of "Expanded Books" on CD-ROM, an eclectic set of books originally written for printed publication, including Jurassic Park and Brave New World.
The Voyager interface remediated the printed book without doing much to challenge print's assumptions about linearity and closure. Even the name, "Expanded Books:' indicated the priority of the older medium. Much of the current World Wide Web also remediates older forms without challenging them. Its point-and-click interface allows the developer to reorganize texts and images taken from books, magazines, film, or television, but the reorganization does not call into question the character of a text or the status of an image. In all these cases, the new medium does not want to efface itself entirely. Microsoft wants the buyer to understand that she has purchased not simply an encyclopedia, but an electronic, and therefore improved, encyclopedia. The borrowing might be said to be translucent rather than transparent.
The Voyager interface remediated the printed book without doing much to challenge print's assumptions about linearity and closure. Even the name, "Expanded Books:' indicated the priority of the older medium. Much of the current World Wide Web also remediates older forms without challenging them. Its point-and-click interface allows the developer to reorganize texts and images taken from books, magazines, film, or television, but the reorganization does not call into question the character of a text or the status of an image. In all these cases, the new medium does not want to efface itself entirely. Microsoft wants the buyer to understand that she has purchased not simply an encyclopedia, but an electronic, and therefore improved, encyclopedia. The borrowing might be said to be translucent rather than transparent.
Source type: pictureTelecommunications Breakdown
Author: Emergency Broadcast Network
Year: 1995 Edit Add
Book: Remediation
Telecommunications Breakdown
Author: Emergency Broadcast NetworkYear: 1995 Edit Add
Book: Remediation
The digital medium can be more aggressive in its remediation. It can try to refashion the older medium or media entirely, while still marking the presence of the older media and therefore maintaining a sense of multiplicity or hypermediacy. This is particularly clear in the rock CD-ROMs, such as the Emergency Broadcast Network's Telecommunications Breakdown, in which the principal refashioned media are music recorded on CD and its live performance on stage.
The digital medium can be more aggressive in its remediation. It can try to refashion the older medium or media entirely, while still marking the presence of the older media and therefore maintaining a sense of multiplicity or hypermediacy. This is particularly clear in the rock CD-ROMs, such as the Emergency Broadcast Network's Telecommunications Breakdown, in which the principal refashioned media are music recorded on CD and its live performance on stage.