Monday, December 7, 2009

DAY 10--summary of lecture

Media ecology is a school of thought that considers how communication technologies become part of society, and in doing so become media on thought and language as part of our everyday culture is a primary focus, explored in areas such as orality, literacy and education.

The tetrad of Media
What does a medium enhance or extend?
What does it obsolesce?
What does it retrieve from older media?
What does it reverse or flip when pushed to its extreme?

Then we review the whole things we do during these two weeks.
A change of emphasis from place-to-place connectivity-based on individuals making and remaking connections in their social and computer networks…

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