The Medium Is The Message
related to marshall mcluhans - we shape the communication tool, then it shapes us
sari and
The Medium Is The Message
I think a lot about the way visibility is mediated by digital communication. On apps, the only way to be seen is to speak. Silence is a meaningful form of communication, but it’s not one that social media apps have any patience for
Eskilson_digitaldesign_ch1
LinkThere is a whole lot of goodness out there when the right systems are in place.
You Are What You Touch: How Tool Use Changes the Brain's Representations of the Body
Matthew R. Longoscientificamerican.com
It is one thing to think with a pamphlet, another to think with a newspaper, yet another to think with a televisual image, and still another to think with a meme.
L. M. Sacasas • The Analog City and the Digital City
so good - Delia Cai
Innovating within an existing platform is always a challenge, because as media theorist Marshall McLuhan argued decades ago, ‘the medium is the message’. TikTok and Twitter/X have short-form content built into the design of the platform, which prevents depth. As I explore in The Bigger Picture, this also leads to what philosopher C. Thi Nguyen call... See more