JOUB24H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Citizen Journalism, Crowdsourcing, Marshall Mcluhan
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Facebook making it easy to stay in touch over long distances. Tv in quebec bound the very distant places of quebec into a much more unified, shared culture. (e. g. la famille plouffe ) E. g. comics in newspapers, the specific elements make the newspaper and coming page predictable and distinct from other forms or media. E. g. television set and connection to broadcasting signals is more important than any specific tv show or regulatory environment. This instrumental view, that technologies are tools embedded socially and culturally. We are the ones building the ecologies through our media practices and everyday lives. Form: according to van loon, form is something that facilitates the formation of particular logics in terms of modes of sensing, interpreting and reasoning". Cultural embedding: how sense making" and shared meanings are organized, for there is no meaning in our interaction with technologies without mediation.
