The big fuss about globalization often leads to us neglecting the local. However, what we can’t neglect is the fact that the local provides us with a particular identity and makes us who we are in some sense. As young children we go to the local fairs, play at the local park, go to other [...]
During this week we read “The Machine Stops” by Forster. I find it quite freaky that a story written in 1909 resembles so closely how most people choose to live life one hundred years after this story was written. It is eerie, exactly how a good amount of the elements in this story can be [...]
As we have repeatedly talked about in class, media are the interrelations of technologies, institutions and cultural forms. The topic of new media this week covers remediation, restructuring old media with new uses and understandings and developing new technological devices for the same reasons or purposes as old devices. When we think of new technology, [...]
