April 2019 archive

Medium Media

In the article “The medium is the message” by  Marshall McLuhan is about how the message of the medium that is being transmitted to society is more important than the intention. Communication has changed drastically in society because of media, for example automation. Lots of people are losing jobs because of automated machines in factories. …

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Media Theory

From Wikepidia, a a Canadian philosper by the name Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase Medium is the message in 1964. In this article, it says, ” It means that the nature of a medium (the channel through which a message is transmitted) is more important than the meaning or content of the message. McLuhan tells …

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Apps and Digital Currency

Apps are probably some of the best and most convenient things to ever happen to people who need things within a certain time limit, but the issue is people are not seeing the long game in their app usage. I personally believe hat are the reason life has become so easy to lose track of …

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Medium

In the article, “The medium is the message” the author Marshall McLuhan tells us that the medium “In a culture like ours, long accustomed to splitting and dividing all things as a means of control, it is sometimes a bit of a shock to be reminded that, in operational and practical fact, the medium is …

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The Medium Is The Message

  The definition of “the medium is the message” according to Wikipedia is a phrase created by Marshall McCluhan that means that the channel through which the message is transmitted is more important than the meaning or content of the message. This statement is proven numerous times. Marshall McCluhan states “This fact merely underlines the …

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Media Theory

The mediums that we use affect our daily lives in many different ways. In the writing by Marshall McLuhan called The Medium is the Message he says “We are as numb in our new electric world as the native involved in our literate and mechanical culture” In other words, we are so caught up in …

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Media Theory By Jaritza Flores-Garcia

“The Medium is the Message”.  That was the quote author Marshall McLuhan said when he explained the aspects of our culture through the media, but why is it so important to how we consume digital media? When we talk about the medium, we were thinking about change in our society through communication that we can …

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Media Theory

As we continue to learn about and develop new mediums for communication and media, we attempt to find more effective ways of transporting information from various sources to an individual or group of people. The more difficult accessing the information is, the less likely large sums of people are to use the methods at hand. …

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Media Theory

In chapter one of Marshall Mcluhan’s book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, Mcluhan delves into the deeper questions of how culture is shaped by the mediums for messages within society. Citing electricity, he examines how it has revolutionized technology in allowing for instantaneous reception of information. Rather than thinking of electricity solely in terms …

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The Medium

According to Wikipedia, the phrase “the medium is the message,” created by Marshall McLuhan means that the nature of a medium (the channel through which a message is transmitted) is more important than the meaning or content of the message. This can be proven in the article “The Medium is the Message,” when it is …

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