ENGL 680M: New Media

me likey the wii.

that's all for now...more to come, i'm sure, since today seems to be an exercise in procrastination...

from Kinneavy. "Discourse and the Field of English."

"Possibly most central (and controversial) to McLuhan's system of classification of media is his division of media into hot and cool, according to whether they involve little or much participation."

seems to relate to what Cat was talking about in terms of something being close to the body...maybe?

as i've been reading manovich, i have been intrigued by his trope of defining against, of delineating new media by offering what it is /not/. given our conversation in class, in which we decided, essentially, that mcluhan's the medium is the massage is actually a new media text, i'm finding manovich's assignation of elements of new media a bit limiting. he suggests that new media texts include "numerical representation," and his explanation is fairly thorough. as i read it, i thought--"yeah, i'm with you." but that would omit mcluhan's text from new media work.

in understanding new media, marshall mcluhan discusses hot/cold media...those which are close to us and those which are separate from us...do we think of our media in these terms? will it help us better understand new media?

"mechanical bride..."
"gutenburg galaxy"

the shift from message to massage...how does the message change because of the technological error--?

wilson bryan key: a colleague of mcluhan? studied subliminal messages--how are the two connected? tom suggests key took mcluhan's discussion of the subtlety of persuasion to "the next level..."