COM 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: New Media, Readwrite, Utopia
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They help us to understand issues of connectivity, interactivity, skill and body-technology relationships. 1880s: a surface lying between two portions of matter or space, and forming their common boundary. 1960s: a means or place of interaction between two systems, organizations, a meeting point or common ground. 1960s: an apparatus designed to connect two devices so that they can be operated jointly. New media pay homage to, and refashion, earlier media. Metaphors act as cues to help us adapt to new media forms. They gives us insight into society"s hopes and fears at a particular moment. (emotions) They tell us about the visions that often drive new developments and innovations. They show us how so man technological outcomes are unpredicted and indeterminable (i. e. socially constructed) They help us to understand the relationship between media content (science fiction, novels, futurists) and the products that ultimately get made and consumed. Media technology are going to save or destroy, no in-between.
