CMST 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Marshall Mcluhan, List Of Muppets
13 Sep 2016
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Office hours: 12-1 pm (tuesdays & wednesdays) tsh 333. Key themes in media theory - laughey, dan. Excerpts in perspective on culture, technology and communication lum, c. Something that"s in the middle, and medium is the middleman of the recipient and. Technology: relationship of technology and a medium, this suggests there"s a relationship in between these two that"s often characterized that, Technology is a medium, is what the brain is to the mind. Brain is a physical apparatus, but the mind is how we use the physical apparatus, so when you put the brain to use into a context we are talking about the mind. Energy: light of computer screen is a medium as well, and this can be thought as any form of energy, gasoline is a technology, there"s another way of thinking of something and identifying it as a medium. Built environment : not a medium natural elements are functioning as media.
