MCC-UE 1 Study Guide - The The, Sundial, Thermostat

• School: New York University
• Department: Media, Culture & Communication
• Course: MCC-UE 1
• Professor: Eugene Mc Bride

Document Summary

The information environment: thermostat metaphor: balance, the information environment, every society has their modes and patterns of communication, examples: information systems, codes message networks, media of communications, they set the standards of thought and learning in a culture, example: aborigines only use face to face communication. This poetic memorization was only at the cost of a total loss of objectivity detachment: poetry was meant to be heard not read, plato developed a new curriculum that wanted abstract thought and critical, plato believed that words, because the physical objects are not there and are usually foreign, create a world of conceptual relations. Useful knowledge outside of us where media is to tell us information: the definition of knowledge is a function of the form, magnitude, speed, direction and accessibility of information, the dominant patterns of information within a culture the codes, the materials the styles of interaction form a big part of our cultural makeup. o.