Mid-term Flashcards
What is media?
Not good, nor bad, but neutral
Content and medium are?
Inseparable
Forms of media cause what?
Change
What happens when we don’t view media as an extension?
We become enslaved by it.
Explain the concept of a one-eyed prophet
Opposite eye closed.
Present a portion of truth while simultaneously conveying a subtle error.
Explain how the sailor in Edgar Allen Poe’s story saved himself and how the story applies to the church today.
He saved himself by studying the action of the whirlpool and by cooperating with it.
We have to take a step back and perceive the power of media not to stop it, but to navigate it.
Define media
Any and all extensions of our humanity
4 Laws of Media
What does media:
Extend (the camera is an extension of the eye)
Make obsolete (new mediums make old technology obsolete)
Reverse into (when pushed to extreme, every medium will reverse into opposite intention)
Retrieve (retrieves some ancient experience or medium from the past)
Difference between ideographic and phonetic alphabet
Ideographic - pictorial characters that can represent entire ideas, phrases or words (pictures)
Phonetic - a seemingly meaningless arrangement of squiggles and dots used to create meaning (writing)
Types of computing
Abacus Electronic Micro Mini Network
Components of computer
CPU
RAM
ROM
VGA
Software types
Anti-virus Presentation Word processing Spreadsheet Design
Hardware
Input devices - mouse, keyboard, flash drive
Output devices - speakers, monitor, projector, printer
Function of transistor
Used to amplify and switch electronic signals and electrical power
Four impacts of printing press on society
Individualistic
Objective
Abstract
Concrete thinking
