MCOM 100 - New Media and Digital Literacy

Interface Culture: Preface (Revisited)

What is an interface?

Connections between technology and culture?

Speed (technological change)

McLuhan – Understanding Media

· “the medium is the message”(technological determinist)

· The Global Village

Luddites

Marx and Capital

Interface design and designers

Colonization of Cyberspace and the American West

Cyberspace

American West

Indigenous People

Initial Migrants

First Mass Migration

Characteristics of the first economic phase

Second Mass Driver

Second Mass Migration

Trends in Second Economic Phase

ONE – BITMAPPING AN INTRODUCTION

Englebart’s Innovations – the new information space

· Bitmapping

· Direct manipulation

· Mouse

· “we are all bitmappers now”

Interface

· The representation often takes the form of a metaphor

Metaforms

Transitions

Metaforms are the future