The Lausanne Global Conversation is on the World Wide Open Network
Autor: nic paton
Datum: 13.10.2010
Category: Medien & Technologie
For the vast majority of years since Gutenberg enabled mass produced written communication, those thoughts which become “published” existed in the mind of an author, being the fruits of that author’s imagination and experience, and generally speaking, good quality writing was a craft which took a lifetime to perfect.
But with the advent of the global digital network, traditional communication has been radically redefined. With microblogging, the trend towards a zero-delay publication of our thoughts continues apace.
Fans of this accelerated culture will no doubt praise the immediacy and reach of global conversations. Many people now, it would appear, orient themselves around the Facebook model of social interaction. These, then, are the questions: We’re connected to all, but present to how many? We interact, but is there any sustained conversation?
In our 21st century reflections around media, perhaps it’s time to revisit the wisdom of Marshall McLuhan.
Read on ...
Stichwörter: Marshall McLuhan, conversation, imagination, incarnation
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Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
McLuhan was certainly a very insightful scholar in the media studies world. Your blog post seems to be dancing around the idea that "the medium is the message" as McLuhan is well-known for saying. I think that looking at how the medium (Twitter or Facebook for example) is changing and shaping society is a healthy and often overlooked, and I think McLuhan would agree, part of evaluating what is going on. In addition to looking at what sort of opportunities and social implications social media technologies bring with them, we also must pay attention to the messages being sent through each medium. If we find a balance with both, then perhaps we can figure out a way to work with technology to create meaningful relationships instead of allowing technology to disconnect us from one another.
09.03.2011
Südafrika
@ abenfield:
Thanks abenfield for an unusually thoughtful comment.
Indeed, medium and message go hand in hand.
09.03.2011
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