Monday, July 16, 2012
Week Seven Reading Reaction #1
The article Navigating Tecnomedia, makes clear that technology is not about getting rid of the old in favor of the new. Technomedia is all about the blending of various technologies into new and different ways of performing. The idea of technology be outdated is a way of thinking that prevents people from understanding how technology builds and shapes people. One central point to the article is the idea that technology as a development can influence people in different ways during different periods of development. Given that a certain piece of technology is developed, does mean that its impact will develop in a vacuum. This piece of technology may in fact influence people generations in the future who had little interaction with the technology, but nonetheless have been impacted by the technology and thus are influenced to makes impacts of their own. Technology is a process to which people experience the use of forms that influence and later their perceived world.
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James,
ReplyDeleteYou did a really nice job with your post on Navigating Technomedia. This article was very interesting to me as it talked about technology as a whole blending together and becoming a more efficient entity. I liked your quote when you stated, "the article Navigating Technomedia, makes clear that technology is not about getting rid of the old in favor of the new. Technomedia is all about the blending of various technologies into new and different ways of performing." I also agree with you when you say that people prevent themselves from understanding how technology builds and shapes people when they have the idea that technology is outdated. The article was also interesting in how it talked about technology influencing other technology is different time periods. This was sure true in the other article, Personal Dynamic Media.