Julia
Weiss
Blog Response 2
9/9/2012
The opening to the second reading What is New Media, left me confused and disorganized in thought. The author keeps talking about what he’s going to talk about. I’m not sure if I’m just not able to comprehend the messages in this text because I’m sick and exhausted or if the concept of media is just really that confusing. He mentions ‘new’ media, and what it is and questions the limits, but before I can recognize what new media is, don’t I have to know what the ‘old’ media is? What is media?
After venturing slightly further into the reading, it talks about the development of modern media and the development of computers, and how they began around the same time. I was not surprised by the simultaneous development, but something that I never thought about was how this affected functioning society. It gives examples of our societal essentials: birth records, employment records, medical records and police records. This made me wonder, if for whatever reason the world modern media system crashed where would we as a society be?
Thinking of media before reading this I thought of computers—yes, cameras—yes, and all of their uses as a tool for leisure. Now, I am recognizing media more as a necessity to sustain the everyday life I live. As humans, we can only process so much information. I can think of many people that place documentation of their life and progress into some type of media storage. For example, my mother who is also a psychologist has patient notes, charts, progress reports, bills and everything work related in some type of media documentation. She as I’m sure many people are is completely dependent on media and the data processing technologies that develop with it.
I found the Principles of New Media section to be helpful, but relatively foreign. I feel this article would be easily understood by a programmer and is difficult to understand if you aren’t familiar with media devices and the way they work, but on the other side, I’m not sure how you could emphasize the breakdown anymore. It goes from article overview to historical creation to specific tendencies between new media and old to separate media elements to media access in the twentieth century. The last and most emphasized thought that crossed my mind throughout the rest of this article was the new problem of today, which is not how to create something necessarily new, but how to discover something already existing in a different version. With constant advancement, does creating a different version of the same thing mean discovery or historical repetition?
Blog Response 2
9/9/2012
The opening to the second reading What is New Media, left me confused and disorganized in thought. The author keeps talking about what he’s going to talk about. I’m not sure if I’m just not able to comprehend the messages in this text because I’m sick and exhausted or if the concept of media is just really that confusing. He mentions ‘new’ media, and what it is and questions the limits, but before I can recognize what new media is, don’t I have to know what the ‘old’ media is? What is media?
After venturing slightly further into the reading, it talks about the development of modern media and the development of computers, and how they began around the same time. I was not surprised by the simultaneous development, but something that I never thought about was how this affected functioning society. It gives examples of our societal essentials: birth records, employment records, medical records and police records. This made me wonder, if for whatever reason the world modern media system crashed where would we as a society be?
Thinking of media before reading this I thought of computers—yes, cameras—yes, and all of their uses as a tool for leisure. Now, I am recognizing media more as a necessity to sustain the everyday life I live. As humans, we can only process so much information. I can think of many people that place documentation of their life and progress into some type of media storage. For example, my mother who is also a psychologist has patient notes, charts, progress reports, bills and everything work related in some type of media documentation. She as I’m sure many people are is completely dependent on media and the data processing technologies that develop with it.
I found the Principles of New Media section to be helpful, but relatively foreign. I feel this article would be easily understood by a programmer and is difficult to understand if you aren’t familiar with media devices and the way they work, but on the other side, I’m not sure how you could emphasize the breakdown anymore. It goes from article overview to historical creation to specific tendencies between new media and old to separate media elements to media access in the twentieth century. The last and most emphasized thought that crossed my mind throughout the rest of this article was the new problem of today, which is not how to create something necessarily new, but how to discover something already existing in a different version. With constant advancement, does creating a different version of the same thing mean discovery or historical repetition?
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