ems - summer i ’11 - t101 lecture2: media life perspective & basic concepts

Welcome to Summer T101 – Day 2!

Day 2

• Friend “Summer MediaLife” on Facebook• Media Life Perspective Continued

The Media Life Perspective

• We live IN media not with it.• There is no life outside of media.• There is no way to make sense of yourself

outside of media.

• In the media life perspective, since we don’t have to worry about the distinction between biology and technology, we’re free to focus on determining what a good, responsible, beautiful media life looks like. – Mark Deuze

Pick your reality

Media Life: The point of it all

Media Life –Some Key Concepts

Questions:

• In what ways do the lines between technologies and the body disappear when we think about media?

• How you think media shape our understanding of the world?

Some media life basics

society centric vs. media-centric explanations of media life

What is media?

• Ever since we started using language we started living in media.

• Language was used to coordinate lots of people. Grunting is good enough for small groups. Civilizations brought about language.

• As soon as you start talking, things can get miscommunicated.

“Media are infrastructures with three components: the artifacts or devices used to communicate or convey information, the activities and practices in which people engage to communicate or share information, and the social arrangements or organizational forms that develop around those devices and practices.”

• Pop Quiz over Syllabus

In T101 you are encouraged to bring media devices to class. True or False.

True.

Media are secret exposing machines

In a media life: we are not alone

In a media life: we are everywhere

update

In a media life we live on screens

The places we are are both virtual and physical – cybernetic space

Natural user interfaces

In a media life: we are the media