Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Reca, Commodification, Box Camera
12 Dec 2015
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Note-taking: reliable way of speaking to your future self, vs. memorizing content. By training your memory you are capable of memorizing anything. Visualizing items are important for effective memory. Simonides of ceos, 5th century bc- banquet hall collapsed, could visualize people in different rooms. Memory palace: you construct a building or imagery in your head to find the information that you need, emphasis on visual and spatial (eg. childhood home) We are much better at recognizing faces then we are names. Pictures are much easier to remember because we link the idea of that picture memory aid. Bohopas: developed epic poems for over 400 years: mahabharata, dev narayan. Students that learned to read had worse memories than those who did not. Oral society: people do not know how to read or write, in these society"s knowledge is understanding self and character (ex.
