Mehul Agrawal
Curious, tinkerer,developer and designer. Curently exploring and learning design at IIT Guwahati. http://mehulagr.github.io
Understanding Media
Media: its newness and its effectsIs “New Media” really new? For McLuhan a medium is “any extension of ourselves”. He pointed out that even the electric light is a medium. He said that “The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message, as it were, unless it is used to spell out some verbal ad or name. This fact, characteristic of all media, means that the content of any medium is always another medium. The content of writing is speech, just as the written word is the content of print, and print is the…Mehul Agrawal2 min read