{"id":317,"date":"2021-02-03T10:19:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T10:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criticalremix.com\/home\/?p=317"},"modified":"2021-02-03T10:23:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T10:23:39","slug":"remediation-book-chapter-published-in-the-routledge-encyclopedia-of-citizen-media-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criticalremix.com\/home\/2021\/02\/03\/remediation-book-chapter-published-in-the-routledge-encyclopedia-of-citizen-media-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"“Remediation” Book Chapter Published in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A chapter I wrote on “Remediation” has been published in\u00a0The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media<\/em><\/a> (Routledge, 2021), edited by\u00a0Mona Baker,\u00a0<\/span>Bolette B. Blaagaard, Henry Jones, and Luis P\u00e9rez-Gonz\u00e1lez.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/The-Routledge-Encyclopedia-of-Citizen-Media\/Baker-Blaagaard-Jones-Perez-Gonzalez\/p\/book\/9781138665569<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Remediation<\/a>

Remediation by Owen Gallagher in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media (2021)<\/p><\/div>\n

Abstract<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Remediation broadly refers to the representation of one medium within another medium, often, in practice, leading to the incorporation of the \u2018old\u2019 into the \u2018new\u2019. This process can occur in a number of different ways, from the faithful adaptation or translation of a text into another media form, to the improvement, refashioning, absorption or repurposing of content into a more advanced technological state. This can have the effect of causing the medium of consumption to become either more transparent or more opaque, highlighting its relative immediacy or hypermediacy, respectively.<\/p>\n

The theory of remediation is important within the sphere of citizen media because non-affiliated citizens are increasingly expressing themselves publicly using remediated content such as remixes, memes, mashups and bricolage. The figure of the independent remixer or meme-artist has become representative of a cultural desire to \u2018talk back\u2019 to the media, to politicians and big business, to highlight injustices, expose irresponsible behaviour and engage in various forms of socio-political action, potentially inspiring real change.<\/p>\n

This entry considers the role of remediation in citizen media, focusing on a number of relevant examples and case studies from the past decade where newer forms of remix have been used to engage in political discourse or support social action. For example, critical remix video has emerged as an extremely potent form of citizen media production through its remediation of existing source material in order to critically engage with ideological biases and highlight perceived wrongs. The Cambridge Dictionary offers an alternative definition of remediation as \u201cthe process of improving or correcting a situation\u201d, which, as this entry shows, is precisely what citizen-engaged remix aims to do.<\/p>\n

References<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bolter, Jay David and Richard Grusin (2000)\u00a0Remediation: Understanding new media<\/em>, Cambridge: MIT Press.<\/p>\n

Deuze, Mark (2006) \u2018Participation, Remediation, Bricolage: Considering principal components of a digital culture\u2019,\u00a0The Information Society<\/em>\u00a022(2): 63-75.<\/p>\n

Jenkins, Henry (2006)\u00a0Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide<\/em>, New York:\u00a0 NYU Press.<\/p>\n

Jenkins, Henry et al. (2017) \u2018Participatory Politics\u2019, in Eduardo Navas, Owen Gallagher and xtine burrough (eds)\u00a0Keywords in Remix Studies<\/em>, New York: Routledge, pp.230-245.<\/p>\n

Gallagher, Owen (2018)\u00a0Reclaiming Critical Remix Video: The Role of Sampling in Transformative Works.\u00a0<\/em>New York: Routledge, pp. 131-204.<\/p>\n

McLuhan, Marshall (1994)\u00a0Understanding Media: The extensions of man<\/em>, Cambridge: MIT Press.<\/p>\n

Navas, Eduardo, Owen Gallagher and xtine burrough (2015) \u2018Section IV: Politics\u2019, in Eduardo Navas, Owen Gallagher and xtine burrough (eds)\u00a0The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies<\/em>, New York: Routledge, pp.321-408.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A chapter I wrote on “Remediation” has been published in\u00a0The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media (Routledge, 2021), edited by\u00a0Mona Baker,\u00a0Bolette B. Blaagaard, Henry Jones, and Luis P\u00e9rez-Gonz\u00e1lez.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/The-Routledge-Encyclopedia-of-Citizen-Media\/Baker-Blaagaard-Jones-Perez-Gonzalez\/p\/book\/9781138665569 Abstract Remediation broadly refers to the representation of one medium within another … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,83,134,136,127,143],"tags":[19,15,9,101,54,33,11,73,8,57,4,24],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-critical-remix-videos","category-ideology-2","category-politics","category-remix-studies","category-remix-videos","tag-activism","tag-aesthetics","tag-appropriation","tag-critical","tag-critical-remix-video","tag-culture","tag-ethics","tag-mashup","tag-media","tag-political-remix-video","tag-remix","tag-remixing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criticalremix.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criticalremix.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criticalremix.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criticalremix.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criticalremix.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.criticalremix.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/www.criticalremix.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criticalremix.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criticalremix.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criticalremix.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}