Friday, October 23, 2009

Lecture 10/2/09

For the next three classes we focused on the history of new media. At first that expression may sound like an oxymoron, but the understanding of the concept behind the expression is paramount.

New Media can be seen as being relative to the time in which is being focused on. At the time in which the technology came out, and the idea was used to further society, the medium can be considered part of new media.

Culture has transformed through the years and has gone through many different forms. The earliest forms could be considered languages such as alarm calls of monkeys which then transformed into body languages and more sophisticated means of communication.

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