ARTG 80H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Liminality, Magnavox, Television And The Public Interest
3 Feb 2017
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Intro vid: the buggles - video killed the radio star (1979) (first video on mtv) Recap: interface (liminality) was where the action was c. 1960s. Working out these techs was foundational for games, as for other interactive media. Messy process (no aha moment of invention) Vast wasteland speech to national association of broadcasters, 1961 tv is trash, dumb, waste of time. My kind of study of communication is a study of transformations of how people are transformed by the media they use. Hot a hot medium is one that extends one single sense in high definition. " high definition is the state of being well filled with data. : high-definition, focus on a single sense, low participation, excludes. Cool it reverses the meaning of cool in slang form, it means deeply engaged. [reverses meaning] : low-definition, involves multiple senses, high participation, includes. In terms of the theme of media hot and cold, backward countries are cool, and we are hot.
