1. Think of several concerts that you've seen. Did they use other forms of media in addition to music? How did the music/performance integrate with the visible presentation? How close did the concerts get to achieving hypermediacy, and what was preventing them from more fully creating direct experience?
2. Even for a 1990s theorist, Frederic Jameson says some pretty extreme things. For one, he writes that, "In fact, television, film, and now computer graphics threaten to remediate verbal text both in print and on the computer screen-indeed, to remediate text so aggressively that it may lose much of its historical significance" (Bolter, 57). This remark was published in the early 1990s. We've now seen the "future" of his prediction. So with the 20/20 perspective of hindsight, to what extent has Jameson's prediction come true? Where has it been proven true; where false?
3. Are you a cyberenthusiast or a technophobic, and why? If you're not sure, start with this question: If technology is quintessential to progress, what is the dark side to such progress?
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