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What the resurgence of print indie mags tells us about the remediation of digital culture
In the past two decades, there has been a renewal of the impulse to make magazines independently and in print, facilitated by the expansion of digital technologies and cultures (Le Masurier, 2012). This phenomenon is a unique manifestation of the intersection of print and digital cultures, where due to increased access to digital tools and the development of digital literacy, different modes of representation have become available to multi-skilled individuals who can themselves at any point, decide which mode may be the most suitable to represent meaning.
While new indie producers use digitization to enable their making, distribution and marketing of printed magazines, they also explore questions relating to the affordances of each medium: what might print magazines have to offer that digital delivery cannot? (Le Masurier, 2012)
These producers "have identified core
elements of the printed magazine and
pushed them to the foreground: the quality and tactility of the paper, format (size, shape, binding), the integration of words, images and space as an expression of graphic design specific to print, and the life and function of the magazine as a material object" (Idem).
In periods of technological and cultural transition, ‘the actual relations between emerging technologies and their ancestor systems proved to be more complex, often more congenial, and always less suddenly disruptive than was dreamt of in the apocalyptic philosophies that heralded their appearance’ (Thorburn and Jenkins (2003), as cited in Le Masurier, M. (2012), p.385)