Is Remediation Wrong?

Bolter discusses the term remediation as media companies using different content across different media platforms and reusing them to create something new. We can see signs of this happening as some novels are made into films. An example of this would be the on the novel Treasure Island. This story has been re-created, re-platforms and sold on different mediums.

Remediation can be used in all most all of popular culture. If we take the latest episode of Dr Who. In this episode the Doctor is forced to jump into his own timeline as of which the few senses are flashbacks of his past which is being represented by video content from early episode from years before. As we can see in Dr Who old media content is being reused to create something new.      

This term could be established to most medium content. We can even see remediation in our technologies in which we view new media digital content. For example if wee look at all websites and how the information is presented to us. Every website is different but they all have some key style within them. In a website the information is broke into columns for easy interactive. We can see some basic similarities in printed new papers and the way in which it presents its information of course without the interactive as this is an old media form but of course on how the information is presented.

As with anything remediation sets off a number of arguments and what is ok to copy and how it is repurposing. It has both its advantages and its disadvantages. Whether it is a good thing or bad thing we cannot say, but one thing is clear that it is one of the key factors in are entertainment industries.