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Unnatural History? Deconstructing the Walking with Dinosaurs Phenomenon

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In their book,Remediation: Understanding New Media (1999), Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin argue that digital visual media can best be understood by examining the ways in which they relate to earlier technologies of representation, a relationship which is a complex mix of homage, critique and revision. They also suggest that this process, which they refer to as “remediation” takes two main forms: immediacy, in which the presence of the medium is downplayed in order to achieve an effect of transparency and realism, and hypermediacy, in which the medium is foregrounded and draws attention to its own artificiality.

Every age creates prehistory in its own image

Adams (1999)

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  1. Department of Electronic Imaging and Media Communications, University of Bradford, BD 7 1DP, Bradford, UK

    Rae Earnshaw

  2. Media School, Talbot Campus, Bournemouth University, Fern Barrow, BH12 5BB, Poole, UK

    John Vince

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White, A.M., Scott, K.D. (2002). Unnatural History? Deconstructing the Walking with Dinosaurs Phenomenon. In: Earnshaw, R., Vince, J. (eds) Intelligent Agents for Mobile and Virtual Media. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0677-7_11

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