Category: Mediums
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Applen Dissection
Applen dissection of how McLuhan’s ideas cultivate different media forms that shape human perception, communication, and societal structures.
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Technology ‘s Influence
This blog reflects on how technology shapes not just what we do, but how we think and learn. Drawing from Old Media, New Media, and Knowledge by J. D. Applen, it explores Marshall McLuhan’s idea that the real message of any medium lies in how it changes culture. The post also connects to Nicholas Carr’s…
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Rethinking Technology in the Classroom
While technology plays an incredible role in today’s classrooms, it is crucial for educators to consider its negative impact on students.
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Pedagogy & Technology
Becoming a future educator while keeping in mind that pedagogy and technology go hand in hand; how to present this to future students.
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Educational Spaces
Pedagogy and the Log discusses the tool unsettling truth of technologies shaping our educational spaces and digital lives are not neutral.
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Medium Coffee
McLuhan said that the medium is the message, but what does that really mean? Does simply making something automatically produce a message?
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The Platform Using Me: How Social Media Reshapes Connection
Social media reshaped how I connect, making me realize the platform was using me, not the other way around. Changing connections forever.
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Platforms. What Are They?
I would like to challenge the fusion of these two concepts. If the media is the message, what does that say about platforms?
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Media Hold Responsibility
Chris Gilliard says “saving” the web via higher ed means envisioning “new ways to exist online.” I say we need to hold companies accountable.
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Media ft. Messenger Pigeons
Media is a massive influence, no question. New media has shaped the world in countless ways, and it’s up to us, the users, to understand how.
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Message of Media
Explore how Marshall McLuhan’s theory of media shapes the way we acquire and share knowledge, from traditional media to today’s digital platforms.
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How media has affected us as readers and writers
Media has taken over our generation in enormously different ways. J.D Applen addresses the media takeover in his piece “Writing for
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Message & Mediums
Explores Marshall McLuhan’s concept of “the medium is the message”, highlighting how different media forms shape our knowledge.
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Is Google Ruining Us?
Digital platforms and mediums significantly shape our thinking, with rhetorical influences evident on analysis sites like Google.
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Theories of the Message Mediums
McLuhan’s theory that the medium is the message suggests that the medium significantly influences how content is perceived and understood.