The World Wide Web

Remediating Reality through the Web

Since Marshall McLuhan popularized the idea of a global village where societies are electronically connected and probing many concepts about media and society , both the intellectual and the commoner have never had the same experience of reality as it had before . Decades later , society started replacing old methods of communicating with more sophisticated means . Reality , as earlier represented or mediated by photographs paintings and film became more readily available and modifiable according to suit its audience ' preferences . Continuous efforts towards the realization of a society interlinked

by just a push a button reached its zenith with the advent of digital technology as a result . Stage plays , the telegraph , radio , the television and other earlier forms of media was later replaced by the computer , which later led to e-mailing and simple transfer

Today , more than ever , millions of people may have the comfort and pleasure of accessing the latest even the oldest information (even those with moving graphics , interface with friends while at it , or listen to a favorite music which have been downloaded online and play online or offline all at the same time , by only using the computer linked to the web . Oh how the digital media have achieved so much that is has been considered as culturally significant as in developing like-minded individuals engaging and interconnected in a global village

How and to what extent the web remediate earlier media such as perspective painting , photography , film , and television by paying homage to...