Media Life is a course intended for undergraduate students across campus. Its goal is to make people aware of the role that media play in their everyday life. The key to understanding a "media life" is to see our lives not as lived WITH media (which would lead to a focus on media effects and media-centric theories of society), but rather IN media (where the distinction between what we do with and without media dissolves).
Assignment 1-3: Personal Information Economy, Google Essay, Analysis of a Media Phenomenon
Assignment 1-3: Personal Information Economy, Google Essay, Analysis of a Media Phenomenon
Assignment 1-3: Personal Information Economy, Google Essay, History of Twitter
The research essay is basically a historical and critical analysis of a significant contemporary media phenomenon. In this assignment, you pick a contemporary breakthrough online phenomenon and put it in historical context (who invented the technology and what preceded this digital phenomenon, how it evolved and how its use spread), in technological context (how does the technology work? what does it allow you to do? does the technology have flaws or drawbacks? what do you use the technology for?), in cultural context (how does this technology influence your life and others' life?), and possibly in policy context (are there legal and/or ethical problems associated with the technology? is the use of this digital communication technology regulated? how?). Be careful to clearly discuss all these four contexts when reporting on your research.
Inception scene: dialogue Mal & Cobb in limbo. disc position: 2:01:45 (chapter 13)
8. a note of caution: Epochal shifts or graduated change in media, optimistic or pessimistic appraisals? (Terry Flew)
8. a note of caution: Epochal shifts or graduated change in media, optimistic or pessimistic appraisals? (Terry Flew)
8. a note of caution: Epochal shifts or graduated change in media, optimistic or pessimistic appraisals? (Terry Flew)
8. a note of caution: Epochal shifts or graduated change in media, optimistic or pessimistic appraisals? (Terry Flew)
8. a note of caution: Epochal shifts or graduated change in media, optimistic or pessimistic appraisals? (Terry Flew)
the only thing we can say about the future in media life, is that it is accelerating.
From a 2003 study, we can see that only does the average American (regardless of age, class or gender) spend about 11 hours PER DAY using media - but he or she also does not realize nor remember their media use most of the time. in the twenty-first century, we navigate through a vast mass media environment unprecedented in human history. Yet our intimate familiarity with the media often allows us to take them for granted. Media use has become: automatic.
From a 2003 study, we can see that only does the average American (regardless of age, class or gender) spend about 11 hours PER DAY using media - but he or she also does not realize nor remember their media use most of the time. in the twenty-first century, we navigate through a vast mass media environment unprecedented in human history. Yet our intimate familiarity with the media often allows us to take them for granted. Media use has become: automatic.
From a 2003 study, we can see that only does the average American (regardless of age, class or gender) spend about 11 hours PER DAY using media - but he or she also does not realize nor remember their media use most of the time. in the twenty-first century, we navigate through a vast mass media environment unprecedented in human history. Yet our intimate familiarity with the media often allows us to take them for granted. Media use has become: automatic.
Hitchcock: “Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.”