Writing in/of/through the ether

Remediation and the ONeill I

I have really been surprised to find out how many times since reading Remediation I have noticed applications of its concepts in our work in class, in my work for other classes, and in my everyday life! What started out as a set of seemingly fabricated terms has turned out to be a very enlightening paradigm through which to view our modern, media-saturated lives.

As far as our class redesign of the ONeill Theater Center's website goes, I have certainly picked out at least two main themes that we can apply from Remediation.

Here's the first one.

1. As a society, we have a perennial fascination with new media and cutting-edge technology just by virtue of its novelty and its display of human ingenuity (hypermediacy), even though we may individually have some aversion to or fear of new technologies. Thus, creative and cutting-edge websites are crucial to the vitality of modern-day organizations vying for attention in a hypermediated world. No one who wants to maintain an image of competency in this marketplace can afford to ignore new media that constantly modify pre-existing media.

So....for us, this means that we need to make the ONeill website one that would impress us as technologically savvy as well as communicative of the timeless nature of the ONeill itself.

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