A Magazine Is An iPad That Does Not Work.

In this video, it portrays the idea of writing being refashioned with digital text. A baby tries to "use" magazines as an iPad would be used, hence "a magazine is an iPad that does not work." To the baby, and to future generations, magazines may be seen as useless, as new technologies such as the iPad are invented. The artist of the video puts text onto the screen before specific clips of the baby. For example, the video begins with the text "This one works" and then a clip is shown of the baby playing with the iPad. The video continues to move forward with other narratives such as "This one does not work" as the baby tries to play with a magazine as she would with an iPad. This video is relevant to our composition class as we read Bolter's book about the remediation of writing from print text to digital text.