Lecture Summary Week 10

So week 10. How exciting, the last post for this assignment.

Media/ Technology- Environment

It isn't just all the trees and birds, it is everything that surrounds us. It is where we live, what we do, etc. It is practically everything.

We have to stop and look at what we take for granted. We have to learn to appreciate the environment around us. Ha. We took take the literal approach to "stop and smell the roses".

The Invisible Environment is was a big factor of this lecture.

It is what I got out of it most.

An intelligent man named MuLan in 1969 said, "Present is always invisible because it is the environment."

It is like that when we are breathing, we don't even notice it until someone points it out.

When something changes, it changes our reaction. Going on with the breathing example, when we are out of breathe, it changes our breathing pattern, and we notice because we are louder and we are puffed and cannot talk and breathe how we would like/prefer to.

According to MuLan, the invisible environment needs to become visible to us.

We are all producers and consumers of content. Due to the open idea of the internet. We can all upload and download, edit, post, explore, etc.

The internet encouraged the idea of creative commons and free software and it has made life a lot more accessible for people. These products are not under the control of everyone and it gives the idea that you, as a consumer, have choice.

This is the main points I got out of this lecture