Reminder: Discussion at the Berkman tonight
Posted on:: January 12th, 2005
Don’t forget, you’re invited to an open discussion at the Harvard Berkman Center tonight, 6-7:30 pm. I’ll talk for 15-20 mins about why it’s important to think of the Web as a world and not just as a medium. Then we’ll talk and eat pizza.
By the way, if you want to know what Marshall McLuhan meant by “medium,” which is not what I mean by it, check Mark Federman’s article.
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The distinctions appear to be subtle, I think, but are all important. As I interpret it (trying to understand clearly) … when we extend ourselves differently into different media, we get different ways of creating meaning a nd different, new results.
So with the web and blogs, as we put more of ourselves into it/them, our interactivity increases, gets easier and spreads. We learn more about what new levels and new types of intearctivity mean to us, and we begin to discover new ways and new opportunities for creating meaning.
Given the range of new types of appliances and software that are intended for interaction, because they use the Web to enable the interaction are they subsets of the Web medium or might they be new and additional mediums – podcasting comes to mine .. not exactly radio, and not exactly a voice-enabled blog ?
any chance of a transcript of the speech being posted?
Transcript would rock.
Yes, Jonathon. Sort of. I decided the topic was just too dull (obviously my fault), so we instead had a terrific, open discussion about the effect of tagging. I’m writing up some thoughts and will post them eventually.
I may also get around to posting what I was going to say about the Web as a medium.