Dirt and noise - lo-fi and low-tech

Started in on the readings for week 3 today - on the topic "Dirt and noise - lo-fi and low-tech".

Unlike last week, the first reading was blessedly straightforward - unless I'm missing something. The basic premise of "The double logic of remediation" seems to be that while we are heading towards an ideal of a multitude of media, we are also increasingly wanting to break down the *way* we receive information, so that the medium itself is more or less invisible. The intersection of so many media - e.g a CNN news broadcast where the user not only sees the filmed footage, but scrolling headlines and an assortment of other media might also be mixed in - is termed "hypermediacy".

The reading apparently was published in 2000, although it seems like (and felt like to me) it had been written a bit earlier - all the example screensnaps are from 1998, and the focus on webcams (SO 1990s) and "pages whose graphic design principles recall the psychedelic 1960s or dad in the 1910s and 1920s" (from what I can see in the photocopy-mushed images, these are very much a "my first webpage" kind of look - the CNN homepage is hilarious, when you compare to the style of news sites today - it's got about 3 things on it!

Things are starting to get a bit more hands-on with Audio Production now - I've booked a DAT machine and microphone for the weekend cos I suddenly realised that I need to record my interview assignment this weekend because of being in Melbourne for David's wedding next week. We also have to record sounds in a studio - John found a broken lightbulb he was going to throw out, so I've nabbed it to see if I can manage to capture the sound on tape.