Tetrad of Media Effects

A set of four categories of effects used to examine the effects on society of any medium:

• What does it enhance?
• What does it make obsolete?
• What does it retrieve that had been obsolesced earlier?

Transliteracy

The ability to understand and use a rage of platforms and media; that is, the ability to be literate and communicate in the Information Age.

Wetware

Neurons regarded as analogous to computer systems, or used with such purpose as an alternative to the hardware-software binomial.

Transposition

Mutation of an original cultural object to produce a derivative work such as an abridged version, a translation, a play, or an adaptation to communicate it on another medium.