“This weeks reading  by Gitelman looks at the way the media, in particularly new media, are experienced
and studied as historical subjects. It uses the examples of recorded sound and the World Wide Web, since the Web is a core instance or application of what are today familiarly and collectively referred to as “new media.” In pairing these examples, I begin with the truism that all media were once new as well as the assumption, widely shared by others, that looking into the novelty years, transitional states, and identity crises of different media stands to tell us much, both about the course of media history and about the broad conditions by which media and communication are and have been shaped.”

Whenever I read something that tells me I will be reading about the “World Wide Web” I want to shoot myself in the foot. I feel as though the Internet and online spaces are changing so quickly that anything that mentions the phrase “World Wide Web” is irrelevant and a waste of time. It irritates me that we should have to read things that are so outdated. But I did anyway and heres what I found:

Not much.

It was a lot of philosophical, over written, over classified, pointless information that I will never use again in my life.

Like what is this babble..

“Naturalizing, essentializing, or ceding agency to media is something that happens at a lexical level”

Legit, SHOOT MYSELF IN THE FOOT.