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the place where
humans store their
memories of the world |
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storing information
outside our bodies
Ex. artificial intelligence
- internet as “global
brain” |
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• reflect society
• reflect reality
• to reflect back to us
our selves and values,
dreams and desires
Ex. telescopes microscopes |
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• illusions of reality
• illusions of society
• “the big lie” |
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• “marketplace of ideas”
• freedom of speech,
press, thought
• ideas compete and
evolve in “open”
marketplace |
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• “marketplace of ideas”
• freedom of speech,
press, thought
• ideas compete and
evolve in “open”
marketplace
• Media deployed as
tool for controlling,
thought and language
• “thoughtcrimes”
• control of behavior
• surveillance
• significant erosion of
privacy |
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• global network
• connecting us or
controlling us |
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Marshall McLuhan
• first used the term
“matrix” to describe
the global electronic
network in 1964 |
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Media function:
• not to reflect, but to
represent
• to help us navigate
reality and society
• inform, understand
• enlighten, entertain |
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• a world understood
and experience
through media…
• where the mediated
and material worlds
exist side-by-side as
our cultural reality.
-media environment |
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