Media Living: A tidbit

[wordwhacker]

I'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.

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[banana-ellana.livejournal.com]

"Technologies become ubiquitous when people stop thinking them as atechnology and simply use them as a regular part of everyday life."
I remember Douglas Adams making pretty much that observation a decade ago - he was talking about technology, cyberspace and media as well. : )