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more lum notes from booker
Feb 28 2008, 12:48 PM EST
-It is the structure of mediums that define the information they carry-- obviously a television carries more visual information than a radio, and a radio relates more aural information than a television in as much as your brain over-compensates for a lack of visual stimulus, much as a blind person's sense of hearing tends to develop more acutely than that of a person who is not visually impaired. Therefore, different mediums relate different information-- it is difficult to even compare the information related by different mediums because we are unable to perceive the world outside of our specific senses (e.g. How do you compare the way something smells to the way it sounds?).-No medium structure originates in an unstructured vacuum-- the only way we perceive the world is through structures that in of themselves were produced by earlier structures. -The big, broad question then becomes how does technology affect culture and vice-versa? When, where, how and why, and how much does one become a product of the other? Maybe we shouldn't separate culture from technology and should instead view them as a continuum... The mediums that have dominated throughout differing eras in history have also served to define the cultural structures of that era. Do you find this valuable?
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