Using a reference from your text about Marshall McLuhan, answer the question below. Let us know what you read (cite page source).
Marshall McLuhan said that "mass media has changed a globe into a village," how true is this statement?
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This statement is completely true. Mass Media has helped turn our globe (big; widespread) into a tiny village a place where everyone is constantly in connection with each other and small enough to know just about anyone. Marshall McLuhan’s Media Theory expands on this topic on page 39 in the second edition of New New Media by Paul Levinson. It is believed that McLuhan “wrote not about his age but ours, in a style that worked best not with the print media of his day but the new new media of our current time.” Print media didn’t have the ability to be so widespread and therefore globally everything remained a part. But, with the new new media connection, everything became a whole and people now connect over news, fashion, politics, and much more instantly, therefore, making us live closely such as a village would.
ReplyDeleteI think his statement is absolutely true. I interpret his idea as that we do not have border among the nations in the worlds anymore. Thanks to the development mass media, we can communicate with others just like talking to people who are sitting next to you. McLuhan suggests the four-part media effects (p. 40). One is new medium “amplifies aspects of our communication”, “obsolesces a currently widespread form”, “retrieves an earlier form” and “reverses or flips into something else”. The media devices can help to develop the form of communication and share the information easily all over the world.
ReplyDeleteThe statement that "mass media has changed a globe into a village" is 100% true. It has allowed people to connect through media in small groups and in a way has allowed us to basically shrink the globe into our own size of our choice. We are allowed to choose who we communicate with. On page 39, it states that McLuhan wrote not about his age but ours, in a style that worked best not with the print media of his day but the new new media of our time. McLuhan's mind worked so that it could envision how media would evolve and his ideas have turned out to be exactly right.
ReplyDeleteA great example from our textbook citing McLuhan's "global village" theory,is in the Facebook Chapter under section; Reconnecting with Old Friends Online (p. 22). In this section author Paul Levinson shares his experiences when reconnecting with online friends he knew in-person but had not been in touch with for years. Paul describes the experiences as " early indications of the power of cyberspace, prior to 21st century social media, to vanquish the time and distance that separate us from old friends and acquaintances" (pg. 23)
ReplyDeleteIn the section referencing McLuhan's "global village"; McLuhan as Microblogger (pg. 39). Paul Levinson though discussing twitter quotes, "new new media express how human beings always wanted to communicate, all along, but could not, because our ancestors and parents lacked the technological sophistication" (pg. 39).
"How did Marshall McLuhan manage to see the digital age?....It was rather that McLuhan's mind worked in a way that our digital age, and new new media in particular, have captured and projected our screens and lives. If new new media express how human beings always wanted to communicate, all along, but could not, because our ancestors and parents lacked the technological sophistication, then McLuhan understood and was in touch with this way of communicating, decades before it came to be" (p. 39).
ReplyDeleteMass media has changes the way we communicate on a daily basis. McLuhan's state is very, very true. Mass media has linked everyone together, even if we are far away from each other.
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DeleteMarshall McLuhan would be totally shocked (but a realization of accuracy) as to where our media has taken us. We now communicate basically totally media. Using media to contact someone halfway around the world or your next door neighbor it is all the same. On page 39 he states that he acknowledges his age but he also does ours as well and what style best suits each culture (meaning age here). He also understood about communciation and the way it was headed way before his time.
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ReplyDeleteThe Statement is completely true, information that would have taken months if not years to travel from person to person is now traveling at the speed of light (literally) and it is now possible to maintain connections with people that you have never even met in person. Mail and carrier pigeons are things of the past and with the media we have now, there is little reason to leave your house, let alone send a letter.McLuhan’s Media Theory talks about this topic on page 39 in the second edition of New New Media by Paul Levinson.
ReplyDeleteMcLuhan was right. The mass media has condensed the globe into a village. The power of the mass media makes us feel like the world maybe isn't as big as it used to be. It seems as small as the entire world living in New York City. People don't use full sentences to get thoughts across, they shorten their concepts and brighten their gestures. Things can be said to so many people in so many ways that no one is truly left out unless you don't live in the "village' "McLuhan understood and was in touch with this way of communicating, decades before it came to be. He wrote not about his age but ours."
ReplyDeleteWith all social media on the net we have definitely went from a globe to a village. Before we were all so closely connected and the Internet was used for information on topics rather than who's posting a selfie with no makeup. We can now send emails, tweets, and messages so fast when everything used to be done by mail it could take weeks.
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DeleteThe statement that mass media has changed a globe into a village is absolutely true. We can connect with anyone in any part of the world at any moment. Relationships have formed without 2 people ever meeting; 2 people hate each other and want to kill each other without having ever met. Nobody (well, almost nobody) uses the regular mail anymore.
ReplyDeleteMass media has helped connect people throughout parts of the world that otherwise may have never interacted on a daily biases. Levinson mentions in his chapter about Wikipedia how it sort of takes a global village to run/edit. "Almost anyone can write and edit entries on Wikipedia. Age, education, location, gender-- none of this makes a difference, or is supposed to make a differences, on Wikipedia" (P.66).
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