Remediation : understanding new media by David J. Bolter

Immediacy: A style of visual presentation whose goal is to make the viewer forget the presence of the medium (canvas, photographic film, cinema, ...) and believe that he/ she is in the presence of the objects of representation. One of the two strategies of remediation.

Remediation: Defined by Paul Levenson as the "anthropotropic" process by which new media technologies improve upon or remedy prior technologies. J.D. Bolter defines the term differently., using it to mean the formal logic by which new media refashion prior media forms. Along with immediacy and hypermediacy, remediation is one of the three traits of our genealogy of new media.