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Mediums and Messages

tags:: #Lecture

Mediums and Messages:

  • Medium: Something that carries something else, such as a message
  • Media comes in different classes/kind of things
  • Whoever decides what is important, has power because media has a strong effect
  • Classifications: reflect and direct our thinking, the way we order is the way we think 
  • The medium for the message is as important as the message, the medium is the thing that carries the message
  • The way a message is classified has implications of power, control and discipline
  • The infrastructure for writing spills out and impacts society
  • Libraries allow for the collection of knowledge
  • There is no natural way to organize info and documents
  • People who find some way to hold power, the way people found a way to categorize info reflected the way they already viewed the world.
  • Vanevar bush created the memex