·
“people, content and symbolic content of media are now
interchangeable”
·
synergy
What is Information?
·
Knowledge (or an item) communicated concerning some particular
fact, subject, or event; that of which one is apprised or told; intelligence,
Information Truths (from NetSavvy)
Information…
1.
is pervasive and invasive
2.
has a very short shelf-life
3.
has changed the technical and communications skills required
for success
4.
Truths 1,2, and 3 have created information overload
1.
Acceleration of information
·
Internet - increased production/access, diversity, faster,
and less expensive
2.
Information overload
·
Amount and Organization (entropy/chaos)
·
Leads to the desire for more (remember access=power)
·
Technical expertise decreases overload by using tools,
Definitions of the Information
society
· Technological
· Economic
· Occupational
· Spatial
· Cultural
Interface Culture: Preface
What is an interface?
Connections between technology and
culture?
·
“James Joyce wrote software for Guttenberg”
Speed (technological change)
·
Eisenstein
McLuhan – Understanding Media
·
“the medium is the message”(technological determinist)
|
Society |
Communication |
Knowledge |
|
Oral/Tribal |
Presence, multiple senses, real time, e.g.-Memory Palaces |
Holistic, phenomenon |
|
Literate |
Out of context, visual, fixed time and space, compression,
reproduction |
Abstract, science, truth, legal, systems |
|
Electronic |
Telepresence, multiple senses, mediation, fixed and fluid,
reproducible |
Global village, collective unconscious, sense of self |
·
The Global Village
Marx and Capital
Interface
design and designers
·
Balzac
·
Dickens
|
Cyberspace |
American
West |
|
Indigenous
People Initial Migrants First
Mass Driver
First
Mass Migration Characteristics
of the first economic phase Second
Mass Driver Second
Mass Migration Trends
in Second Economic Phase |
|