“Connectivity brings new sharing of information and knowledge with others. What was once accessible only via a physical school, government building, or other public institution is now potentially accessible to persons all over the world” (113-114). Veltman, Kim H. Understanding New Media: Augme...
Continue reading ...Postman, Neil. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. Vintage, 1993. Another take-away from Technopoly is somewhat oddly-founded, as it is based on a bit of a tangent that Postman pursues as an example of technologies coming in disguise (in Chapter 8: Invisible Technologies). He disc...
Continue reading ..."Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely he way Aldous Huxley outlined in Brave New World. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible and therefore irrelevant" (48). Postman, Neil. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology...
Continue reading ...Nearly a third of college students reported that their parents or guardians would be "very upset" to know how little they actually attend classes in person. College Students on Streaming Video: Get Me Outta Class! Here is an article posted on the campus technology site last week, which offers a g...
Continue reading ...“Media convergence impacts the way we consume media.” (14). Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. NYU Press, 2008. Black Box Fallacy Jenkins coined the “Black Box Fallacy” in response to the common argument that “all media content is going to flow t...
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