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Katie Hines

Omegle - 0 views

  • Katie Hines
     
    A chat service that connects you to a random stranger, and discloses no identity other than "you" and "stranger".
Adam Bohannon

Harold Adams Innis: The Bias of Communications & Monopolies of Power - 0 views

  • The Bias of Communication
  • he relative stability of cultures depends on the balance
    and proportion of their media.
  • a key to social change is found in the development of communication
    media.
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  • each medium embodies a bias in terms of the
    organization and control of information.
  • Time-biased media, such as stone and clay, are durable and
    heavy. Since they are difficult to move, they do not encourage territorial
    expansion; however, since they have a long life, they do encourage the
    extension of empire over time.
  • Space-biased media are light and portable; they can be transported
    over large distances. They are associated with secular and territorial
    societies; they facilitate the expansion of empire over space. Paper
    is such a medium; it is readily transported, but has a relatively short
    lifespan.
  • It was Innis’ conviction that stable societies were able to achieve a
    balance between time- and space-biased communications media.
  • He also believed
    that change came from the margins of society, since people on the margins
    invariably developed their own media. The new media allow those on the
    periphery to develop and consolidate power, and ultimately to challenge
    the authority of the centre.
  • Oral communication, speech, was considered by Innis to be time-biased
    because it requires the relative stability of community for face-to-face
    contact. Knowledge passed down orally depends on a lineage of transmission,
    often associated with ancestors, and ratified by human contact. In his
    writings, Innis is forthright in his own bias that the oral tradition
    is inherently more flexible and humanistic than the written tradition,
    which he found rigid and impersonal in contrast.
Mike Wesch

YouTube - Re: Has YouTube Changed Your Life? - 0 views

  • Mike Wesch
     
    2:20 looking people in the eye vs. looking into the camera
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