When
presenting this topic to American students I begin with
Japanese culture mainly due to my personal
history and because it helps students become aware
of the effects of media
ghosts in their own culture by first examining a
distant culture.
The more we discuss Japanese
culture in class, the more students come to see that
a good deal of modern culture is connected to our fascination
with our communication technologies and the faces
that those technologies present to us as we interact
with them. At this point in our discussions, I introduce
students to Remediation by Bolter and Grusin.
After continuing discussion,
many students see that Bolter and Grusin’s remediations
of narrative effect are not only central to the new
media experience, but are present in nearly all technological
forms of narrative mediation, therefore always connecting
the construction and reception of narrative to the technologies
used as a form of presentation. |
