As I was reading Bolter’s introduction to Remediation, I couldn’t help but to think about some of the changes in the new media that he discusses since this text was written. Bolter claims that the “[o]lder electronic and print media are seeking to reaffirm their status within our culture as digital media challenge that status” (5). What is interesting regarding this statement is how ten years later that fight continues with a kind of symbiotic, if not parasitic, relationship. For instance, most news stories and articles that I encounter come from a third party social networking site such as Digg, Reddit, Fark, or any of a number of blogs. Now all of these sites earn revenue through advertisements. What is interesting to me, though, is how these sites essentially hijack content sometimes with no link to the original source. Sometimes an entire article is simple screen captured and posted on an image posting site such as imgur.com.
