20071122

The discursive construction of new media

20071122
_juhee han
A language is a system of communication which consists of a set of sounds and written symbols.symbols are physical or immaterial(meta-physical). We call 'book', 'pen' and 'note'. it is simple. but, How do we define immaterial or abstract things?
Like this, Is Discourse a definition an abstract idea that we can't see?
Dr. yoon said.
" Why did they make a institution (mental hospital) ? "
who is normal? or not?
if is is so, The definitions keep changing. also, Discourse?


# NOTE
language (literacy culture) - visual (visual culture) - media

** Discourse (담론, 談論) : communication that goes back and forth (from the Latin, discursus, "running to and from"), such as debate or argument


1.5.3 The discursive construction of new media
1. what is discourse?
  • (post-structurealist) Language does not merely describe a pre-given reality
  • operating such as microscopes, telescopes and camera
2. A sense of repetition in how media changes
  • dejavu : 'seen this' or 'been here' before
  • each new medium occurs and proceeds technologically and socioeconomically in the same way
  • the same patterns of response are evident in the members of the culture
  • the same patterns occur in widely different historical and social contexts (ex. film : cinema)
3. determine a kind of media
  • panorama or dirama
  • technological visual culture
  • problem : what is real? (ex. movie 'matrix')
4. discursive construction of new media


1.5.4 Conclusion
  • media archeological approach

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