Week 11’s reading had me thinking,
‘The ways people experience meaning, how they perceive the world and communicate with each other, and how they distinguish the past and identify culture’- the effect of new media.
oh, you listen to vinyl? or better sound quality? because you’re over 60? or because you’re a hipster sceney?
‘Or is the history of media first and foremost the history of technological methods and devices? or is the history of media better understood as the story of modern ideas of communication? Or is it about modes and habits of perception or about political choices and structures?’
These questions brew in my mind. speaking of Protocol- yes. it’s a history, an evolution, a shift in control, a shift in power, a shift toward mass communication and public discourse, a movement of vast knowledge and accessibility of information.. it’s a facilitator of culture- of structures in art, of structures in politics, public opinions, democratic power.
‘This mental map by conventions separates human nature from non-human nature. Art and other nonscientific pursuits arise from or represent culture, while science represents nature.’
And, does new media represent both? a representative and an enabler? a combination of scientific protocol and culturally stemmed ideas and discourse?
