Week 8 symposium – Craziness with hammers –

Have you ever tried of touching wind? Do you feel the frustration when you touch nothing?

Thats what I feel today, Adrian symposium is super confusing. I don’t even think I managed to scratch the surface.

He started clarifying the difference between digital media and network media. Adrian said that the meaning for digital media is oxymoron and it has changes everything it touched in relation to media. While network media, is more recent than digital and it has not been so disruptive.

That part is okay, it is easy to understand but here comes the tricky part. We began discussing this week first question about the neutrality in technology. This apparently taken from the Murphie & Potts reading.

We started by discussing about neutrality but here I don’t understand which understanding on neutrality that Adrian and the rest of professor is thinking about. Because for me neutrality means that things is balance and it does not lean towards one side, it stand in balance. but it seems here they have different perception about it. I think it would be better if they have define the concept of ‘neutral’ before they launched into the question.

In Adrian case, he believes that no technology is neutral and that specific technology has its own specific purposes and uses.

I don’t know, I myself find this thing very confusing. Can it really be not neutral? I mean there is always two side in something so aghhh I don’t know…

(Keep Calm and Leave Me alone, picture from The Keep Calm-O-Matic)