This weeks lecture had a interesting philosophical deconstruction of stories and uses of media. The main idea is that a story only has a beginning, middle and end because the technology of the particular media is confining it.

The Book was the main example: a book has pages in it with writing on these pages that tells a story, because of the technology (ink on paper) the book must have a first page and a last page, this means that the story written on the pages must have a beginning and an end.

This, however, is not the case for the internet as a technology. In this weeks lecture we were encouraged to disregard our preconcieved ideas of what something is and understand that those boundaries are not to do with the media, but the technologies used to convey that media.

Quote of the day: “Materiality of the technology we use does matter” –  Adrian Miles