T101 What is media life?
We don’t live with but we live in media.
Media plays a role in everything happening around us.
Falling in love with media, intimate with media
We are in control of this world (time person of the year).
Instead of looking at reality a s something that we consume, we control reality.
Limit the range of expression that we have in media, we are not trying to be ourselves.
Censorship – There is no exit , it just leads to another studio.
Media and social solitude- Are media driving us apart or bringing us together?
Our media speak to us as individuals- Consider media as extensions of our body (love our media)
Media and conviviality
One in five marriages in America started online.
How can we also see media as being together and doing something fun with life?
Ivan Illich (1926-2002):
The way our society is structured is that we train people to be very good consumers.
His writings lead to development of the first personal computers.
Some of the most innovative futuristic about media and life today are also based on his writings.
In all this enthusiasm we are beginning to lose people. – Sherry Turkle.
Our media are getting so good in giving us exactly what we want that maybe we start investing too much
of our personality in them. We fell in love with our media.
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Monadology- the monad, of which we will speak here, is nothing else than a simple substance, which
goes to make up compounds.
The monads have no windows through which anything may come in or go out.
Uncanny that time and distance are gone when it comes to media.
Notes are a part of Mark Deuze’s lecture.
