Media, Information and Technoculture 3902F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Langdon Winner, Parkour, Critical Mass
7 Feb 2017
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Week 7: thinking outside the media box nov 3rd 2015. John downing focuses on everyday forms of communication: example: graffiti, dress, pins, buttons, performance art, street theater. Buttons: very cheap / they can easily spark conversation and thus expand the public sphere (126-127) Easily accessible bc the medium is a wall or any public surface. Communication not just about meaning-making between human beings. Armand mattelart (the invention of communication: traffic: the movement of people, commodities, and information is communication, parkour as alternative communication video, critical mass video. Example: mogamma egypt looks like a hotel or hospital (bureaucratic) The sociology of technology; ideology and politics built into tech. Bus cant fit, however, cars can excluding people + subdivisions. A-z retail tricks to make you shop. Shows how movement through the retail store is conditioned by the physical layout of the store, where specific commodities are placed, flooring, the use of mirrors. Deception of our senses deceives our ways of thinking.
