Living InformationMedia & Information04 Media Life

media are infrastructures with three components: the artifacts or devices used 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.

media as artifacts

media as activitiesmedia as arrangements

media as activities

“media are what we do”

media multitasking versus

concurrent media exposure

Ivan Illich (1926-2002)