[MPC 210] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (27 pages long!)

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Combined Media
• Course: MPC 210
• Professor: Kathleen Pirrie- Adams

Document Summary

Digitalization is everywhere, even if you don(cid:495)t use it there is increased. Human experience is now more visual and visualized than ever before, surveillance and work and leisure are increasingly centered on visual media technology and media is officially a part of every day life. Someone is nearly always watching and recording which catches things like crimes in action but at the same time it is not capable of stopping the crime or prosecuting. The gap between the wealth of visual experience in postmodern culture and the ability to analyze that observation marks both the opportunity and the need for visual culture of as a field of study. While the different visual media have been studied independently there is now a need to interpret the postmodern globalization of the visual as everyday life. Postmodernism is simply a visual experience, it is complex, overlapping and has a disjunctive order ; tidiness is not to be expected.