Remediation is the concept of borrowing or “repurposing” materials.  Today, we can access older materials through the Internet.  Transparency remains the main goal when concerning remediation.  Ideally, there shouldn’t be a difference between the experience of seeing a painting in person and on the computer screen.  Years ago, our technology was not as visually credible.  The images were grainy and not true to the colors.  As we advanced, we have come closer to this particular goal.  A new medium can try to absorb the older medium entirely.  With many films trying to repurpose digital technology, the goal is to make the computer disappear in order to absorb the older medium.

                We can borrow materials and make them into a new medium entirely.  Those that read “Alfred Profrock,” by T.S. Eliot related the poem to Salvatore Dahli’s Persistence of Memory painting.  Others related it to Hootie and the Blowfish’s song “Time”.  However, the painting and the song do not take over the poem by T.S. Eliot.  Each medium works on its own even if they relate to or inspire one another.  We see this many of time how one medium gives inspiration to the next.  Many paintings throughout history depict passages from the bible.  Paintings such as Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam to John Milton created the epic, Paradise Lost, both based on the biblical passage about Adam and Eve.  Remediation has been in effect for a very long time.  Furthermore, no medium can function independently and establish its own separate and purified space of cultural meaning.  As the aphorism goes, life imitates art.  The same applies to the concept of remediation.  The media comes from somewhere.  Thus, all media remediate the real. 

                One of the most popular form of remediation we see today is the Twilight series.  The novel series which turned to film is repurposed from the classic Braum Stoker’s novel Dracula.   Over the years, Braum Stoker’s novel has been borrowed in a multitude of ways or in this case, media.  From the novel, comes the earliest silent film, Nosferatu.  In the 1990s, Anne Rice wrote the novel, Interview with the Vampire, which turned into the film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.  Twilight inspired and made a pathway for many television series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vampire Diaries and True Blood.  Each media has its own depiction of what vampires are like.  Many stick to the characterization that vampires are romantic.  There are also video games that are produced from this particular genre.  Would there even be a vampire genre if nothing was ever produced from the classic novel by Braum Stoker?  Can each of the media that is produced (television, film, novel, video game) stand on its own?  Does each medium absorb the older one?  One does not need to even look to the older version to understand what makes up a vampire.  Many qualities transcend. 

                From the old such as a novel or poem (any text), many times that particular media is transformed into an entirely new one dealing with technology (film, television, computer images).  With an array of media as our learning tools, we have many opportunities to study both language as well as literature.