Posts Tagged: imedia

1. When I was reading through the Wealth of Nations, I couldn’t help but think about freedom.  In the chapter on culture, cultural freedom was discussed. What I think about it how has our freedom, cultural or otherwise, been affected to by the Internet and interactive media? Does the internet give us more freedom by allowing us to publish as much as we want and explore millions of site, discovering an ocean of information, or does the internet actually strip us of some freedoms like privacy and the like?

2. I haven’t finished reading the book “Here comes everybody”, but in just the beginning of the book, I couldn’t help but relate to the story of the girl losing her phone.  I feel like this illustrates the desperation and dependance on technology, today. My question is, will this technology dependance continue to increase as our technological developments mature, or will the novelty of all these new technologies become “overdone” and “old news”? Eventually will everyone decide to give up these technologies in order to cleanse and rid their life of the hassle?

3. When thinking about company growth, how does the internet play a part? Do websites with higher interactivity begin to build the company’s size and income?

1. My first question from the reading comes from the idea that we are related to the formation of media. It goes back to the “chicken and egg” scenario. Do we control and manipulate what type of media is formed or are our expectations acutally being driven by the media creators?

2. While skimming these chapters and thinking toward my research project, I have to think about how children are becoming more and more dependent on media. I wonder what kind of influence does this have on their early development mentally and even physically?

3. Lastly the idea of that Mass Media Symbols will affect people in different ways leads to me to wonder a couple of different things: (relating back to my research project) how does this differ in a group or room full of children? even siblings living in the same house? also, what does this mean about me? How am I letting media affect me? And how do these effects differ from one type of medium to the next?