Why does Meddy suggest this is relevant? What is one rhetorical strategy used by the video's creators?
Meddy suggests this as relevant because we are examining the remediation and refashioning of text. Text is now being published in digital formats that are easily accessible on iPads and other electronic devices. This is a remediation of text that is easier for some, such as toddlers, to use. At first, I thought the baby was physically unable to turn a page on a magazine, but the dad (I am guessing) said that the baby’s fingers were fully functional and used evidence of her turning a magazine page (which was a rhetorical strategy in the sense of proving the other side of the argument that a baby could turn a page on a magazine and on an iPad). However, the baby was able to flip through the screens on the iPad at great ease. I do not think that the baby knew what she was doing and that the fact the baby saw a picture of herself on the iPad (it was the background picture), I think she enjoyed playing with the iPad and was only looking for a picture of herself. My now five year old cousin Emily was (probably still is) like that when she was two years old. Whenever we showed her a picture of herself, she would smile and take the picture and look at herself. A second rhetorical strategy used was the line at the end that said “Steve Jobs had coded a part of her OS [operating system]”. The dad, the presumed narrator, means that Steve Jobs has coded part of his daughter’s brain into thinking that an iPad is a magazine, but I still think that the baby is a narcissist, looking for herself in the magazine.
This reminded me of the video that was shown in class where there were two guys and one of them was teaching the other how to use a book.
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