Media, Information and Technoculture 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Southeast Asia, Paolo Bacigalupi
27 Sep 2016
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From the term medium a material or substance through which something is transmitted. Can be found on key terms 1 medium/media . Media is a medium/channel of communication, transmits messages through technology or other sources. In practice, when we talk about media we are referring to a larger scales. Using different resources to reach out to big popular audiences. Standardized entity making the content and sending it. Changing because of computers and digital networks. Media now includes social media and mobile phones. A big part of our lives: our age spends 17/18 hours of media each day. Power: media shapes the way we think and what we believe (critical thinking) Father suffered from an oppressive military regime. Comes to america to work in social media, opposed to the newspaper his father worked for. He is in a social media environment.
