Remediation Analysis

Now that you have chosen your text and its five remediations, it's time to think about two things:  the analysis component and the medium/s that you will present this project. 

In order to conduct the analysis, the following questions may help guide you.  Some of these questions may not really pertain to your project or what you are attempting to do, and that's okay--remember these are just questions to help you get started with the analysis.  Also, you may have other questions you'd like to address, and that's fine as well.  These questions are guides--tools to help you further your own analyses. 

1. For each textual remediation, what has changed?  How?  Why?
2. For each textual remediation, what has remained the same?  How?  Why?
3. How does audience interaction vary with each remediation of the text?  Why?
4. If you have a remediation where audience interaction does not change, why do you think that is?
5. Does each textual remediation affect our perception/understanding/interaction with the original text?  If so, how and why?  If not, how and why? 
6. What technologies are incorporated with each remediation?  How/why does that alter the original?
7. Why was each remediation selected for this project?  Why were these five specifically chosen?
8. What is the value of understanding remediation?  (This can be pedagogical value, personal value, etc.)      
   

The remediation analysis can be written as an overall analysis, an introduction to your piece, in blurbs analyzing each remediation as you go through them, etc.  You can audio record the analysis instead of writing it out.  You can write a song for the analysis.  You can do a combination of techniques for analysis.  It's really up to you--and there is no right or wrong here.  (Well, it can be wrong in the sense that you don't analyze the remediations in a thorough, thought-provoking manner, or you just throw something together...yeah, that would hurt you a lot...)

As for format, you don't have to use just one medium.  You don't have to use more than one.  You cannot use the same medium you did for your first project.  You will need to explain why you chose the medium/s you did for your project.  In other words, don't choose a medium that you consider to be easy that doesn't really make sense with your project.  It needs to go with your project, and you need to be able to explain to me how it does (something more than "I really like this site", "I am really familiar with this site", etc. is needed). 

Throw questions re: analysis here on this blog, and I'll respond to them asap. 

KT