#hypermediacy

   In Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, he acknowledges how old media (like print mediums) are being replaced by newer media-- digitally.  Though, he goes on to further explain that new media isn't just pushing old media to the wayside, rather presenting old media in a newer, more modern light.

Here's what another blogger posted, regarding this idea Jenkins brings forth:

http://joachimvlieghe.tumblr.com/post/6719193309/hjconfrontingchallengesrevisited

This sort of goes off of what I mentioned about in my post Year 3000.  It is more than obvious that in the (near) future, new technology will emerge and replace what is considered to be today's most updated innovations.  That said, this can essentially take a toll on blogging.  This is not necessarily a bad thing, though.  I look at this as a reevaluation process for the blogging world, especially in terms of travel journalism.

Eventually as mentioned in my previous post, blogging will become outdated, but that doesn't mean what was once blogged will be completely erased.  No, it will be archieved just like old newspaper from the 1920s are today.  Blogged entries, posts, pictures, and anything related to a travel journalist's content will still be easily available to audiences - even if its original medium is replaced.   This serves as almost a relief for travel journalists because they will always be able to blog and reflect, blog and reflect, and blog and reflect - even if its twenty years in the future.  For their audiences, blog content can still be inspirational, even if it's as old as 2010.  Aspiring travel journalists will be able to look up old blogs when they are beginning to record their travels in a newer, more futuristic medium.  In other words, travel journalists will always be able to have a positive affect on an audience interested in a world of travel, no matter what audience/generation/time gap they may be from and no matter what new technology replaces today's. 

http://emilyfizzyforever.tumblr.com/post/77813499822

  The first time I read the short story titled The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen, I was captivated by all the mental images that its narrative provokes. This story was originally written in Danish, which has led to an extensive list of editions, each one created according to the translation of its writer and his evaluation of previous editions. The Little Match Girl has been presented as an illustrated story, a film, and also as a play. All these remediations have the purpose of making the receiver have a better experience with the story. Taking that into consideration, I decided to create an edition that merged all the strategies used by previous editors with mine, in order to stimulate all the senses of the viewers and make them feel part of the story.

Choosing Prezi to remediate The Little Match Girl fulfilled my objective of making the connection between the story and the reader dramatically stronger and different. First of all, the platform is extremely accessible to every audience. In addition, this story telling tool is fun and easy to use and the receiver can also share the work to all social networks, making the story sticky and spreadable. But the most favorable part of this program is that it allowed me to dramatically unite the two theories that make effective the remediation: the immediacy and hypermediacy.

Ever since the reader starts experiencing the edition the immediacy and hypermediacy are merged. The viewer has control of the progress of the narrative and is aware of it when pressing the keyboard to proceed with the presentation. While the spectator is reading there is background music that does not go unnoticed and neither distracts him but rather ties him to the atmosphere of the story. The reader is aware of the interaction with the interface due to the constant movement from one page to another, zooming in and out of them with the keyboard, but when he faces the content all of these aspects become transparent. On the other hand, the variability in the typography, images and videos, although they are part of the conscious receptor interaction, become a set of materials that rather than having a single importance, modify content and make the story and the reader a single item. The junction of the techniques of hypermediacy and immediacy in this edition cause empathy and a sense of presence that not all readers reach passing pages in a book.

                  Link to access the multimedia history and witness the benefits of digital media:

The subversive potential of hypermediacy

The desire to foreground the facticity of mediation could be deduced from self-aware videos like Ryan Trecartin’s (indeed describing his work as ‘hyper-mediated’ is practically compulsory…) which acknowledge and even celebrate their mediated nature, conveyed through frequent direct-to-camera addresses, visible camera equipment, fractured editing and no attempt at realism of story-lines, characters or settings. By foregrounding and reveling in its own mediation, work like Trecartin’s subverts the desire for ever greater realism and immediacy, or medium effacement, exhibiting what Boulter and Grussin (2000: 14) call hypermediacy’s ‘playful or subversive attitude, both acknowledging and undercutting the desire for immediacy’.