ENGL 680M: New Media

When writing my previous entry on work, I remembered something interesting about documentation and gender. I thought you might be interested in hearing that:

My grandmother never had her own social security number. When she was born they weren't issued at birth and the only time a woman

Within the first few chapters of McLuhan’s text, I found my mouth pursing in characteristic skepticism that I associate with graduate school. McLuhan’s assertion that technology has “reconstituted dialogue on a global scale. Its message is Total Change, ending psychic, social, economic, and political parochialism” (McLuhan, 16) seemed to hearken past optimistic arguments of technological determinism.