Taks 1 Week 2

d) p.12 Is there a clean break between analogue and digital media (cf. Bolter and Grusin’s concept of ‘remediation’)? Can you identify any commonalities? For example, is email based on the language of ‘letters’ and ‘the postal service’ because we have tried to fashion its communication functions in terms we are already familiar with?

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Analogue media is different to Digital media in the sense that analogue is distributed to the masses, no real involvement in the process that media takes to be delivered to the user, it is just there at your disposal. Whereas digital media creates a sense of involvement or interactivity. It can, as Lister et al. state, offer, "New textual experiences [which include] new kinds of genre, textual form, entertainment, pleasure and patterns of media consumption". In conjunction with the satement is e-mail like nthe postal service? It is clear to see that there are some commonalities between the two, some of these are that they are the written word just produced in different formats and that the receiver of the letter or e-mail can consume the information anytime they want once they have received it. However, there are differences, mainly due to the technology within the e-mail. E-mails are received almost instantly, they can contain information linked to the world wide web (available at the click of a button).