Mobile Phones Algorithm by McLuhan




McLuhan, in the posted photo above, with his Maxim, demonstrates that we are only human because of our mediated technologies which determine that for us to be human in that way. It is not merely saying that the technologies have advanced us, is some way; but it is McLuhan's contention that these technologies play a role of mediating our seeing and understanding/interpreting the world, that this is different from analogic technologies-in this case, he was talking about digital world we live in, before he even saw it. According to Lochhness, what McLuhan saw was that: In the 'Footnote to McLuhan, David Lochhead tries to explain the McLuhan view that our technologies mediate our interpretation of the world of print, and technological gadgets techniques' and ways of ameliorating our reality through these machines.

These changes enabled by the mobile phone are merely social: they do not yet reach to the level of effect upon our psyche with which McLuhan's theories are concerned. On the other hand, the Internet is participatory, by definition - it serves as a medium of communication only when questions and comments are put to it. So it is only with our own electronic age that we truly enter McLuhan's field of ‘cool' interactive communications. McLuhan claimed that, in his own time, a new era of electric media had been ushered in by the telegraph, radio and television.


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McLuhan's central theory is that human modes of thinking are altered by our predominant media of communication. Yet the theories he developed about the effect of communications media on the human psyche can be applied to recent technologies which he could have known nothing about. The history of the world clearly tells the tale of technology, and it's obvious to the most casual observer that the great societies have always been those who took advantage of the technologies of their time.

Surrounded by all this positivity and support, it can be easy to forget that there are a lot of people out there who aren't as gung-ho about computers, digital access, and multi-modal publications as I am. At least…until I go home for the holidays and listen to family members talk about how Video games are the reason kids don't know how to do real things, like change tires!” or I read an op-ed piece in the New York Times about how too much tech isn't really a good thing. The technique used by the media and all those who want things not to change but must remain the same, are still the same as it was in the Dred Scott times, and still is in the Ferguson and New York demonstrations of killings, and wrongful murder and incarceration of African people today in the 21st century America. With the advent of the Internet and the social media, it is galling to see the rulings that were ushered-in and foisted upon the dismayed polity and the oppressed in particular-by the modern-day Grand Juries in the US. The videos that were provided to the media by ordinary citizens, of which in Brown's case only the audio of the gun sounds, was captured, and in the case of Garner he was seen being murdered on the pavement, so that these videos, have put the cops right in the middle of the fracas and murders without a doubt.

In the days of social media and the Internet, these have been brought to bear and in the front of society in the US. What this means is that, the many races and different communities, races, and so forth, snapped when the Grand juries, in different states of the United States found the cops not guilt or liable for the murder of Garner and brown, and these were captured on video.

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