September 10th
It today’s class. We talked a lot about how the “medium is the message.” I completely agree that the we in which we receive the message affect’s how we think of it.
For example, a lot of people are more willing to trust a newspaper or book then they may be willing to trust a post on Facebook. Or, a lot of the time, a call from your mother is urgent, while a text from her isn’t as urgent. It may be because we know what she wants with the text, but even still, it causes a different reaction therefore , the medium is the message.
We were also required to read “The Shallows” which was written by Nicholas Carr. I don’t widely agree with a lot of what Carr said. Carr tends to lean towards the “negative” side of technology and comes off as an older parent ranting to his kids that technology is ruining them. You could argue that technology has changed society, and you would be right, because it has. However, it doesn’t mean it’s for the worse. Society has been changing for as long as anyone can remember and to argue that one decade is better than anyone is pointless to me.