MMEDIA 1A03 Lecture 2: Week 2 Lecture - September 15, 2017
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Auto amputation and self amputation (look over mcluhans reading) How we negotiate how tech mediates our experience (plays a role in how we view the world) Flow of people slow in the day, pace picks up in the evening. Social patterns, how people break apart, moments of awkwardness. It does not fulfill ex 1, it is a performance. Bodies frozen in time disrupted the speed in gc. Focused on doing an activity rather than observing. 36 -# of exposures on a film. How quickly a class quiets when class starts (what the student does, what the prof does) Distinct mark of cultural production through sampling and remix. How a medium shapes a message/ medium. Distinctive features that shape a meaning of a message. Tech is constituted, it helps to shape the world, ex. Evo of phone, we shaped the tech (doesn"t determine, it shapes) Tech is more complex than just a tool to help the world.