This week’s symposium highlighted the fact that there is no centre or most important part in anything, whether speaking of people, networks, technology, anything. Furthermore, websites like Cowbird demonstrate that digital media makes it increasingly easy to group similar parts of something; where the final result becomes greater than the sum of all the parts. This parallels Sergei Eisenstein’s notions of soviet montage, where he demonstrates the juxtaposition between two separate imagery creates a completely new meaning, more powerful than the sum of both images.  This shows an interesting connection between the media of the 1920s and contemporary online networking. Notably, this is the second time I have referred to Sergei Eisenstein in my blog, more or less for the same reason. Guess it shows I actually listened in EMT last semester which is convenient.