Final lecture of the media life course, after eight years at Indiana University, about what it is like to live in media.

1. media life
what it is + what can be done

2. media life

3. media

5. media are pervasive,
ubiquitous, ambient

8. media disappear

10. media organize
your life

12. watching and being watched
is the new normal

14. “It used to take effort to be public.
Today, it often takes effort to be private.”
danahboyd – 25 January 2010

15. media have become
survival relevant

16. media mediate
sociality

17. media mediate
social solitude

18. media life

19. life

21. “art represents the highest
task and the truly metaphysical
activity of this life”
Friedrich Nietzsche

22. “why should the lamp or the house be an art object
but not our life?”
Michel Foucault

23. willingly or not,
knowingly or not,
“we are all artists of
our lives
like it or not”
Zygmunt Bauman

32. YOU ARE NOT
SPECIAL

33. media life

34. looking inside the car
while driving

35. there is no war against the machines,
as the machines are us

44. thank you IU…