Media Living: A tidbit
Oct. 12th, 2008 04:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wordwhackerI'm putting this up so that I will remember to comment on it in more detail later - check back if you're interested.
Back when I was at Macquarie taking my "Poetics of New Media" course, one of my classmates made a presentation and did a really simple little experiment. He asked me (well, he asked the class, and I answered) how I would describe myself. I said something like, "25 year old student, Canadian, genderqueer..." I think I might have talked about liking travel, that kind of thing. Anyway, then he noted that I hadn't immediately described myself in terms of my technology use or media consumption - I didn't call myself an internet addict, a film afficionado, whatever. So when I started reading danah boyd's article, Incantations for Muggles, this stood out to me:
"Technologies become ubiquitous when people stop thinking them as atechnology and simply use them as a regular part of everyday life."
Unrelated but awesome - XKCD today is SPOT ON re: the debate about digial rights management.
Back when I was at Macquarie taking my "Poetics of New Media" course, one of my classmates made a presentation and did a really simple little experiment. He asked me (well, he asked the class, and I answered) how I would describe myself. I said something like, "25 year old student, Canadian, genderqueer..." I think I might have talked about liking travel, that kind of thing. Anyway, then he noted that I hadn't immediately described myself in terms of my technology use or media consumption - I didn't call myself an internet addict, a film afficionado, whatever. So when I started reading danah boyd's article, Incantations for Muggles, this stood out to me:
"Technologies become ubiquitous when people stop thinking them as atechnology and simply use them as a regular part of everyday life."
Unrelated but awesome - XKCD today is SPOT ON re: the debate about digial rights management.
