Shining Lights: Magic Lanterns and the Missionary Movement, 1839—1868Main MenuHow to Navigate This DissertationWhat is Shining Lights?An overview"Only a representation": John Williams and the Problem of Presence“O! that the Holy Spirit would enlighten them": Reconstructing Livingstone’s African Audiences“That is a big proverb!” (Mis)representing the Crowthers in the British Periodical PressDigitally Remediating the Material ArchiveRemediating the Past, Imagining the FutureA CodaAcknowledgementsBibliographyTerms of Use & CopyrightMary Borgo Tonusers/2BlueFish!6a775e7f93db4e4e6947fe3f00ce9724b7a7edb3
Remediation as Knowledge Design
12019-07-22T15:28:11+00:00Mary Borgo Tonusers/2BlueFish!6a775e7f93db4e4e6947fe3f00ce9724b7a7edb314visual_path3102019-07-22T21:00:17+00:00Mary Borgo Tonusers/2BlueFish!6a775e7f93db4e4e6947fe3f00ce9724b7a7edb3In the case studies of nineteenth-century material, I’ve described how each remediation of a magic lantern show reflects the affordances of the mediating technologies that came before. Williams’ representation of his lantern shows, for example, preserves the sequence of the images in the slider because there was no other order in which he could project them. If characterized as a materiality of mediation, his letter formally translates the characteristics of the magic lantern show as an audio-visual medium into a textual one. At the same time, the letter also registers as a secondary site of mediation in the ways that it offers Williams a chance to represent his own perspective. Likewise, digital versions of lanterns, slides, catalogues, letters, journals, missionary periodicals, and critical sources preserve the limitations of the technologies used to translate them from a physical environment into a digital one. As materialities of moments of remediation, digital objects also crystalize the perspectives of the digitizer(s). In order to lay bare my own goals as a mediator, I developed three approaches to knowledge design that are driven by object-oriented approaches to cultural heritage materials, experimental archaeology, and ethical editorial practices.
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