CS100 Lecture Notes - Printing, Pictogram, Samuel Morse
13 Dec 2013
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Smack the slow media association of canada, kitchener. The content of one medium is always the content of another. What does the medium retrieve that had been obsolesced earlier. To share divide out, impart inform, join, to make common. Communication is an exchange of information and messages such as ideas, stories, emotions, information, news. Intermediaries- umbrella is protecting human from the rain acting as a medium. Media is understood as extension of human presence in time and space. Through language signs and symbols- liberation from time and space. Through tools- extension of the human body itself. Symbols are things whose special meaning allows us to conceive express and communicate ideas- using signs and symbols to represent the word because the use of symbols is a characteristic of human behaviour. Symbols are learned, ephemeral-trends to giving meaning to an object-yolo, arbitrary. Signs and symbols is not that for which it stands it means something, it has significance.
