Babies Like To Be Interactive

The video has a caption that says "A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work". This metaphor compares a magazine with an iPad by showing a baby unable to do anything with a magazine but the girl gets excited (which is clear by her voice) when she touches an iPad.

I find this clip very interesting and it relates to our class because we are talking about the remediation of text. For this baby, printed text (magazine) means barely anything to her, but an iPad (electronic text) is more engaging and makes her excited. The baby does not understand what the magazine is and why it is static. On the other hand, she can see movement on the iPad which causes her to laugh possibly since the iPad is more like reality. Until the baby understands that not everything is interactive, she will not realize that printed text will not change.