ems - summer i ’11 - t101 lecture2: media life perspective & basic concepts
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Welcome to Summer T101 – Day 2!
Day 2
• Friend “Summer MediaLife” on Facebook• Media Life Perspective Continued
The Media Life Perspective
• We live IN media not with it.• There is no life outside of media.• There is no way to make sense of yourself
outside of media.
• In the media life perspective, since we don’t have to worry about the distinction between biology and technology, we’re free to focus on determining what a good, responsible, beautiful media life looks like. – Mark Deuze
Pick your reality
Media Life: The point of it all
Media Life –Some Key Concepts
Questions:
• In what ways do the lines between technologies and the body disappear when we think about media?
• How you think media shape our understanding of the world?
Some media life basics
society centric vs. media-centric explanations of media life
What is media?
• Ever since we started using language we started living in media.
• Language was used to coordinate lots of people. Grunting is good enough for small groups. Civilizations brought about language.
• As soon as you start talking, things can get miscommunicated.
“Media are infrastructures with three components: the artifacts or devices used to communicate or convey information, the activities and practices in which people engage to communicate or share information, and the social arrangements or organizational forms that develop around those devices and practices.”
• Pop Quiz over Syllabus
In T101 you are encouraged to bring media devices to class. True or False.
True.
Media are secret exposing machines
In a media life: we are not alone
In a media life: we are everywhere
update
In a media life we live on screens
The places we are are both virtual and physical – cybernetic space
In a media life: we are the media
