From text to talk (Blog#1)

One item I believe has been remediated is a book to book on tape. Over the summer I was working long hours and didn't have time to sit down and read a book. So I decided that I would listen to a book on tape while I commute and while I work. I believe this change from a physical book to book on tape is a good example of remediation. The original book would probably be just a normal book, but the audio I listened to was an mp3 I downloaded to my iPod. Going from a cassette/CD (I don't know the original medium) to the mp3 was also a form of remediation.

Going from a physical text to cassette/CD to an mp3 is a good example of remediation as reform because going from a text to an audio version made the story accessible to me while not having access to the physical text book or time/place to read said book. We can also say that going from cassette/CD to mp3 is also remediation because instead of having to carry around multiple cassettes/CDs I could carry the full story on one small device. Thus rehabilitating the media.

HI NEW FRIENDS!

Oh hai there! My name is Erik. I am in my last semester here at WSU getting my degree in Linguistics. No, you don't have to know 25 languages to be a linguist. Linguistics is just the study of how language works and other fun stuff like that.
I really like watching TV and movies and will usually have a movie or TV show playing in the background while i work, or play video games, pretty much while I do anything. I'm not a snob about cinematography or anything like that. I watch movies and TV shows to be entertained. If you want a real treat watch a movie called "The Room" It's so god awful that it's damn funny.