April 2018 archive

The medium is the message

This article was kind of hard for me to understand. I Think I have an idea of where he was going with the whole “medium is the message phrase.” On the first page McLuhan says “ for the message of any medium or technology is the change of scale pace or pattern that it introduces …

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Class Activity Summary

1. What was your activity? Please be specific on what you asked the class to do and what you hoped it would accomplish. Our activity was we took 4 envelopes and randomly put Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat in each one. We divided the groups into four and we asked them to write three things  …

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Class 10 Media theory

In the first paragraph, Marshall Mcluhan lets us know that “medium is the message”. This means that form of a medium embeds itself in any message it would transmit or convey, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived, according to Marshall Mcluhan. In this day and age there …

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Class post- The medium is the message

Joseph Singh MCS Jonah Brucker Cohen April 12, 2018   Media Theory Please write your response to the meeting and try to answer this question: Why is the medium so important to how we consume digital media? According to Marshal Mcluhan, the medium within The Medium is the Message, is the form of a message …

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Media Is the Message

This article was kind of difficult for me to understand. From what I got from it is that media is what we use when we want something to be said or known by the masses. That message is made from the content that content is intensified by another content and so on. The best example …

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Reading Response 4/12- Media Theory

The medium is important to how we consume media because it is responsible for the content we are exposed to, and the speed at which we receive it. For example, in previous decades when mediums consisted primarily of print media and television, the information we had access to was very limited and we had little …

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The Medium is the Message

Adcording to Marshal Mcluhan, the medium within The Medium is the Message, is the form of a message whether that be print, visual or oral. This determines the many ways in which that message will be perceived. Mcluhan believed that modern day technology/communications are effecting the ways we experience the world. These form of communication can include …

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Class activity

Today we will be splitting into 2 groups. You will be provided with 5 messages and the groups will have to find the medium (TV , film, internet , radio, print) for each message. Then we will discuss with the class and see what you guys discovered.

Medium is the Message Post 4.12.18

  This post was a bit of a struggle for me in the beginning as I didn’t really understand Marshall McLuhan’s theory that “medium is the message.” I have an idea but the reading was stiff and I had to dig dip for the meaning and research.  First, medium is defined as an agency or …

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