September 27, 2009 – 7:24 pm
Mentor Cana’s problem with McLuhan’s concepts of media as the message and his idea of technological determinism is that McLuhan doesn’t give examples of how technologies are constructed. I’m not sure how the act of providing examples of the construction of technology makes anything he says about various technologies more or less credible, because Cana read more »
September 27, 2009 – 5:45 pm
Todd Kappelman gives a short analysis of Marshall McLuhan’s “The Medium is the Message.” He elaborates on what McLuhan meant by the extensions of humans and gives great examples of such extensions (i.e. Microscope is an extension of the eye, automobile is an extension of the foot, etc). Furthermore, he goes on to explain how read more »
September 27, 2009 – 2:07 pm
Marshal McLuhan introduces his piece by writing of how today we’ve managed to extend ourselves in a global embrace, but cannot understand the extensions of ourselves (bodies, nervous systems) without realizing that all these extensions work together in their affect of the psychological and social contexts. He says that people act and react simultaneously in read more »
September 21, 2009 – 12:31 pm
Bush, Vannevar. As We May Think. The Atlantic. July, 1945 Dr. Bush writes of the complications that plague life in the time frame in which he has written the essay and how these complications could be remedied in the future. He writes of how scientists (and science) allowed for the swift communication between individuals of read more »
September 20, 2009 – 12:16 am
Campbell, Scott. Giving up my iPod for a Walkman. BBC News Magazine. 29 June 2009 This article was rather amusing. I mean, I was born in 1987 so I saw my brother and sister use Walkmans and think they were so cool walking around with their tape players listening to their antiquated tapes. As a read more »
September 19, 2009 – 4:13 pm
Turnley, Melinda. 2009. Towards a Mediological Method: A Framework for Critically Engaging Dimensions of a Medium. Melinda Turnley’s paper was a lot to (and harder to) digest than what I’m used to reading. She presents a thorough examination of the dimensions of media and breaks these mediums up into the following 7 categories: -Technological -Social -Economic -Archival read more »
September 19, 2009 – 1:48 pm
To put it succinctly, this video sums up how technology presently interacts with our lives. Where people were once forced to obtain any information via tangible, hard copy prints, and older mediums, all of this information is now readily available via new, digital mediums due to the increasing popularity of Web 2.0 technologies. We can edit the content read more »
September 7, 2009 – 1:04 pm
Yes, you read correcty. I played for the White Sox…. in my dream! Isn’t that crazy? I was shortstop, but I was nervous because usually I’m the designated hitter. I knew I wouldn’t be able to work the infield, so when I realized Ozzie switched up the roster and didn’t let me know my heart read more »
September 3, 2009 – 12:16 am
Just a quick blog before I go to sleep. Why do the blind always try to lead the blind? It’s hilarious that everyone feels as if they have the credentials to provide others with life lessons, inspirational sayings, and words of wisdom when, in fact, they can’t even guide themselves across a stable path. So read more »
