lecture 03.21.2008 -my opinion

I think "digital media" means 21c representative.
So example internet, cell phones,
digital camera, mp3 player etc, it includes these.
And I think it is changing continuosly and come into new products.

I searched meaning of hypertext beacause I didn't know. Meaning is...
In computing, hypertext is a way of connecting pieces of text so that you can go quickly and directly from one to another.

lecture 03.21.2008 summary

Last class, key points are...
1.When technologies connect or separate people, they become media.
2.Technologies embody social, political, cultural, economic and philosophical ideas and relationships.
This class, key points are...
1. When a medium is new, it is often used to simulate old media.
2.New media do not replace old media, they displace them.

<>
Hypertext is one way that digital media has been understood is as new forms of writing, reading and thinking.

<>

1.motivation - Man’s population and gross product are increasing .

2.stated problem - “augmenting human intellect”

3.funding, economics, genealogy, dramatis personae, narrative strategies, othering

4.thinking - symbolic processors

reading - rendering and restructuring

writing - thought/symbol (re)structuring

my opinion- lecture 03.12&14.2008

when I studied your lecture about information technology,
I thought that technology is very strange.
I was not interested in technology and I did't hove no knowledge about it.
But After class, I think that it is very creative , flexible and a continuum.
So when I read the "welcome to the present",
I thought that the author' idea about present is same with mr opinion.
...especially flexible!

Porfessor said two key points .

Digital media technologies connect or separate people, they become media.
I think this sentence is very sensation.
I knew just that media is a media until now,
however I realized that media influences people much and gives profits to people.

lecture 03.12&14.2008 summary

1.“welcome to the present”

main points
-When digital media technologies connect or separate people, they become media.
- Technologies embody social, political, cultural, economic and philosophical ideas and relationships.

2. “computers” can take many different material forms
-“computer technology” does not necessarily start as silicon and gold.
-“computer technology” does not necessarily need to be implemented as hardware or software.

3. George boole: “an investigation into the laws of thought” (1847)
Charles babbage, “difference engine” (1848)

4. The two building blocks of computers - switches, connectors

5. This week’s main reading - Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think."

(1) vannevar bush is a MIT professor and founder of NSF.
(2) He invented the “differential analyzer” .
(3) MEMEX was based on Bush's work developing an improved photoelectric microfilm selector.
(4) microfilm selector is an electronic retrieval technology pioneered by Emanuel Goldberg.
(5) Questions about "as we may think" - 1,2,3,4