Living Information Lectures on Defining Media

Deck of lectures of the University of Amsterdam undergraduate course Living Information., focusing on defining media in your life.

1. Living Information 02 Your Life UvA_LI

2. “media are infrastructures with three components: the artifacts or devices used used to communicate or convey information, the activities and practices in which people engage to communicate or share information, and the social arrangements or organizational forms that develop around those devices and practices.”

3. media as artifacts media as activities media as arrangements

4. media as artifacts

5. media as what we use

6. remote control video recorder joystick computer mouse mobile phone interface

7. 1. the remote control

8. 2. the video recorder

9. 3. the joystick

10. 4. the computer mouse

11. 5. the mobile phone

12. 6. the interface

13. media disappear

14. “Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.” “You never had a camera in my head.” “Brain-reading tech is coming. The law is not ready to protect us.”

15. the dark side of media as artifacts

16. when media are born

17. when media die

18. media as artifacts media as activities media as arrangements

19. media as activities

20. media are what we do

21. “The convergent media environment is making possible an enormous redistribution of a certain kind of power — the power to speak, to write, to argue, to define, to persuade — symbolic power. For many people, the media are no longer just what they watch, listen to or read — the media are now what people do.”

22. 2003

23. media disappear

24. media as artifacts media as activities media as arrangements

25. media as arrangements

26. “We begin to become aware of just how much of our reality is open source and up for discussion.” Douglas Rushkoff

27. media arrangements media activities media artefacts

28. we live in media media are what people do media disappear