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Skype and the Reality of Remedial Media

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Yoni Van Den Eede’s assessment of the concept of remedial media as “implying” that technological shortcomings can be remedied by technology understates the evolution of media, which shows that improvement of technological flaws via new technology is intrinsic, actual, and central to media development, not implied. The use of mobile media and their applications in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti is a current, prime example, and also speaks to the capacity of technology to remedy the natural disasters that strike the world.

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  • Van Den Eede Y. (2011) In between us: On the transparency and opacity of technological mediation. Foundations of Science 16(2–3):139–159

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    Paul Levinson

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Levinson, P. Skype and the Reality of Remedial Media. Found Sci 17, 397–399 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-011-9254-7

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