Wow!!!Time flies...i can’t believe that today’s lecture was the last...
In the lecture Adam discussed media ecology and also gave us a summary of the course. He described media ecology as a school of thought which considers how communication technologies have become part of the society.
The main thing that stood out for me is how Marshall MacLuhan summarized his ideas about media as tetrad of media effects. The tetrad is a means of examining the effects on society of any technology/medium by dividing its effects into four categories and displaying them simultaneously. McLuhan designed the tetrad as a pedagogical tool, phrasing his laws as questions with which to consider any medium:
What does the medium enhance?
What does the medium make obsolete?
What does the medium retrieve that had been obsolesced earlier?
What does the medium flip into when pushed to extremes?
I had a great time doing this course in the past two weeks. Like i said on my first post,I enrolled in this course to so gain an awareness and better understanding of the world of computers and the internet. Many thanks to Adam for his great teaching skills which made it possible not only for me to understand the uses of the new communication technologies, but also appreciate and acknowledge the existence in the invisible environment. Thanks Adam!!!!
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