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digital technologies not only remediate classic media forms such as newspapers, television, telephone, mail and telex; they also remediate what can be called boundary media objects: fuzzy artifacts situated somewhere between private memory and public communication. Think for instance of things like address books, telephone calls, diaries, banking accounts, et cetera.
When digitally translated or automated (as with telephone calls on your mobile phone, or e–mail address books) these private „real life mediations” acquire an inscription, a form, and an ontology not present before. They become digital objects, nested in other digital assemblages, ready to be reiterated and transferred by nested networks.
Van Den Boomen, Mariane (2007), Transcoding Metaphors after the mediatic turn, - discussing a more radical reinterpretation of Bolter & Grusin’s concept of Remediation
