This book is about Medium as a Metaphor, that means that we should not believe that everything is as it may seem, that everything states for something. It is the history of Message and the ways of transmitting it from the beginnings until now days, from smoke signals and wall drawings until the modern technologies that Media uses now days. I found it full of information presented in the funniest way.
Trying to see the American spirit, the author talked about different cities and what ideas they represent. We must say that the author’s arguments are funny especially when he is talking about the President of the United States as being a movie actor and we can link that to the show Saturday Night Live.
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If they call me an entertainer , I say that’s great. When a professor teaches with a sense of humor, people walk away remembering “.
The main point was that everything should be done in a funny way to influence the masses.
For example, at our German class, we have many funny activities and games and we have to get involved in order to obtain a good and pleasant result class this is the only way we will “ walk away remembering “ .
The book speaks about “ Marxists, Freudians, Lévi- Straussians “ and Plato four influential thinkers of out times . They focused on the art of conversation and all the techniques and technologies that allow people to exchange their ideas. Starting from this idea we are introduced into the history of what is called this days “ conversation” , sending a message and Media.
At the beginning people used smoke signals to communicate and this over time turned into a complicated and complex way of communication. This main circle can be divided into smaller ones. For example, when children are young they communicate first by signs and by simple sounds to express what they wish or feel , at the age of 5 the child starts understanding and using simple words and over the years they will develop the communication skills and improve their vocabulary every day
1.1 People communicate by many ways including non-verbal highlighting facial expression, eye contact, body language, physical gestures such as touch, dress and behavior, along with verbal including tone and pitch of voice. The age and knowledge of a person one is communicating with, also dictates somewhat the amount of vocabulary i.e words and terms used too . People communicate to share ideas, information, educate, build relationships, express feelings and emotions, to be social, ask questions and expand their knowledge and share different experiences.
Communication means people are able to send signals to each other. It is there so
People communicate for many reasons, but I guess the main reasons are to get what we want, to refuse things we don’t, to give information or to find information and importantly to interact socially. We communicate to show pain, to show our emotions and express our feelings. We can communicate through speaking, touching, facial expressions and body movements. Through communication we build relationships.
People communicate for all types of different reasons, we communicate to express a need or desire, to share ideas and information, to reassure, to express feelings, socialise, to share an experience, all essential for building and maintaining relationships.
1.1 People communicate for many different reasons, it is mainly for understanding what is going on around them and to know what needs to be done. To be able to express their feeling's and say what they need and want. For reassurance when they are not sure of something. And to ask question's when needed, To socialize and get to know other people and the thing's they like, dis-like and their background history.
1.) Of this week’s reading the articles, The Medium is the Metaphor the author and Media as epistemology by Neil Postman draw on the fact that present American culture is entirely devoted to entertainment and today’s media-metaphor shift has led much of our public discourse to become nonsense when it does not sever its sole purpose to entertain. Postman also went on to explain on what he means by the term epistemology with the help of some words from epistemology.
Communication can be used in many ways by using different methods. Individuals from different backgrounds can communicate by doing whatever is comfortable to them, whether it’s communicating in their own language or if they can’t verbally communicate they may use sign language. Individuals could use body language and facial expressions to express their needs or what they would like.
People can communicate in many different ways, verbal (talking), Written (email, memo, posters), body language/gestures (the way they react when been given information), their facial expression, eye contact, sigh language and behavior. People communicate to one another on a day to day basis. People may communicate to each other for different reasons such as: Creating a relationship, keeping a stable relationship, 'chit chat', giving/receiving information or expressing ideas, thoughts or concerns.
puzzling essay on media and not to find a guide on a complex subject. Although not everyone can
Communication is a two way process which allows us to express our thoughts and feelings to others, while allowing us in turn to understand what others are trying to convey to us. Communication involves speech and language (verbal) as well as facial expression, gesture and body language (non-verbal). Communication is an essential life skill for children and young people and it underpins their social, emotional and educational development. (Bercow 2008)
In todays society we are becoming more aware how the “Medium is the Message.” In Rushkoffs analysis he talks about how digital media is affecting the way we live our lives. In the analysis he shows how we are becoming more dependent on digital technology to get out answers or do things. Some messages that are shaped by his medium would be that we are living through the technologically we use. For example, in his analysis he writes about how people reach for their phones in their pocket like it is vibrating and they got a text but in reality its their minds telling them too look.
Our basic mean of communication among species and interspecies is thru language. Language enables us to communicate with each other, our thoughts and feelings, ideas and concepts, likes, and dislikes, fears, dreams
Communication is one of the central building blocks of brain development. A child's ability to communicate begins at birth with crying. The more words an infant hears the more brain connections are made. Interaction is essential in order to master the skill of language.
The part of communication starts by defining the concept of communication in a political-economic way. To understand deeply the political economy of communication, it is necessary compare it with culture studies, so this part also explains the similarities and differences between this two studies.
After its birth, glass becomes one kind of useful material in people’s physical life. It has one unique nature that, after some little modifications, it can be qualified to accomplish totally different tasks, for example serving as windows and mirrors, to benefit the people who use it. Meanwhile, towards people’s mental experience, the communication is similar to glass in nature, and plays the same role. In such a modern and pluralistic society, the accelerating pace of life and the increasing amount of information bombardment people’s brains; The high frequency of contacts with internet, which is an infinite source of knowledge, also exhausts their time to think over themselves and then makes them easily to become a pollyanna, which means the people who keep blind optimism without a certain life direction. Whatever online or offline, the communication, which is the most important and common way people have interactions between each other, plays an essential role that improve people’s identities and avoiding the astray of life. Sherry Turkle, the writer of “Reclaiming Conversation” , expresses her ideas in “the Empathy Diaries” that the conversation, especially the face-to-face conversation, is essential for children’s development of the skill of social communication. Furthermore, Zadie Smith, the writer of “Speaking in Tongues”, expresses the idea with deeper meaning, which not only shows the function of communication, but also indicates tongue’s influence people’s