functions of media
information, education, entertainment
So, perhaps, we could better state that we live in a
media society.
So far, in the latter part of the previous century, television
has dominated our lives, and observe that
(following Ernie Kovack, cited from medium
television is a medium 'because it is neither rare nor well done'
Back to the main issues, what is an information society?
According to information society
the new term 'information society' gave form to a cluster of hitherto more loosely related aspects of
communication -- knowledge, news, literature, entertainment, all exchanged through different media and different
media materials -- paper, ink, canvas, paint, celluloid, cinema, radio, television and computers.
From the 1960s onwards, all messages, public and private, verbal and visual, began to be considered as 'data',
information that could be transmitted, collected, recorded, whatever their point of origin, most effective through
electronic technology.
So, from the varieties of perspectives we have discerned,
including technological perspectives, societal perspectives
and psychological perspectives,
we must investigate the problem of communication:
communication draft version 1 (16/5/2003)
That is, simply, who says what to whom in what channel with what effect?!
The remainder of the book will, however, will treat these
issues mainly from a technological perspective.
In the chapters that follow, we will enquire after
the technological assumptions that make
an information society possible.
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