The Integral Part: Proposal for a Reconsideration of an Aristotelian Concept for Contemporary Typologies of Transmedia Change of the Narrative Message

The contemporary strive to define, describe, and classify the changes in how old media are re-presented by new-media has generated a debate that divides new-media theorists into two main opposing camps. The first, based on the concept of remediation, stresses the importance of the technological element, and the second, with a transmediation approach, prioritizes the transformation and adaptation of content to the specificities of the language of the chosen medium. This article presents an analysis of the field of new-media theory not to provide a resolution to the issue, but to offer a more cohesive understanding of the fragmentations and transformations that new-media technologies have generated in the display and transmission of, as well as engagement with content.