digital-media

Think before you click. If people do not know you personally and if they cannot see you as you type, what you post online can be taken out of context if you are not careful in the way your message is delivered.

Often interfaces are assumed to be synonymous with media itself. But what would it mean to say that __nterface_ and __edia_ are two names for the same thing? The answer is found in the remediation or layer model of media, broached already in the introduction, wherein media are essentially nothing but formal containers housing other pieces of media. This is a claim most clearly elaborated on the opening pages of Marshall McLuhan__ Understanding Media. McLuhan liked to articulate this claim in terms of media history: a new medium is invented, and as such its role is as a container for a previous media format. So, film is invented at the tail end of the nineteenth century as a container for photography, music, and various theatrical formats like vaudeville. What is video but a container for film. What is the Web but a container for text, image, video clips, and so on. Like the layers of an onion, one format encircles another, and it is media all the way down. This definition is well-established today, and it is a very short leap from there to the idea of interface, for the interface becomes the point of transition between different mediatic layers within any nested system. The interface is an __gitation_ or generative friction between different formats. In computer science, this happens very literally; an __nterface_ is the name given to the way in which one glob of code can interact with another. Since any given format finds its identity merely in the fact that it is a container for another format, the concept of interface and medium quickly collapse into one and the same thing.

If we all work together there is no telling how we can change the world through the impact of promoting positivity online.

Our society has led us to believe that everybody is on the internet these days. Contrary to popular belief everyone is not on social media.

Don't promote negativity online and expect people to treat you with positivity in person.

If you are in a position where you can reach people, then use your platform to stand up for a cause. HINT: social media is a platform.

Freedom of Speech doesn't justify online bullying. Words have power, be careful how you use them.

If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.

Not only are we digital immigrants, we are also media dinosaurs. We enjoy thumbing through glossy magazines, and maybe still subscribe to a daily newspaper. We schedule at least one evening per week around a favorite TV program, created by one of the major television or cable networks. We can name at least one local or national news anchor. And scattered around our homes and offices are veritable graveyards of physical media _ old tapes, vinyl records, floppy disks, and magazines _ that we insist on keeping, even though we'll probably never use them again.

Technology allows more people to tell more stories in more ways. Storytelling knows no boundaries. I believe print and web can work beautifully together.

What you post online speaks VOLUME about who you really are. POST with intention. REPOST with caution.