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).
22. when mediated reality becomes our reality… what reality do media make us experience? what reality do media make? so… what is the reality we make when we use media?
Inception scene: dialogue Mal & Cobb in limbo. disc position: 2:01:45 (chapter 13)
Technomyopia describes the way people usually react to new technology. The theory states that in evaluating new technology, people tend to overestimate the short term impact of the technology whilst simultaneously underestimating the long term potential.
Corning – A Day in Glass
8. a note of caution: Epochal shifts or graduated change in media, optimistic or pessimistic appraisals? (Terry Flew)
Ford: Water On
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.”
Hitchcock: “Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.” The 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot was a public disturbance that broke out in the downtown core of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on Wednesday, June 15, 2011.
The world today has become truly global - we are all connected
We are all connected - through media. This is a graphical representation of the internet, as it links everything and everyone through networks of mediated communication.
anytime anyplace anywhere: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwiFulgEiKc and the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YasIm-3wTC4
examples: http://www.syncmyride.com/ http://www.car-media.com.cn/ http://www.onstar.com/web/portal/landing example in NYT (of Sept 1 2011): people most often use OnStar just to talk to someone.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/interactive/2009/mar/02/mobile-phones update jan. 2010: http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/01/08/opk-indiana-jones-and-4-6-billion-other-people/ update oct 2010: http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats#subscribers 77% of the world’s population has a mobile phone subscription
This table shows how media use must be primarily understood as combining two things: screen-based media (TV, computers, videogames), and networked media (internet).