Alright, I was ready to talk about the reading “Designing the smart house” only, but since the Tyler Clementi incident happened and how other matters like facebook and twitter seems to be also important as well, I will share some of my thoughts about those also. Through the internet, people continuously report everything around [...]
Learning about new media this week, I couldn’t help but think we are currently living through an explosion of new media. The rise of the internet has allowed great minds to think of new ways to re-imagine cultural forms we have been subject to for years. Youtube has provided us with a new and instantaneous [...]
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, [...]
