Media Ecology

Media ecology is subject to many different definitions and therefore a large amount of separate personal interpretations. One of these is a definition given by Kate Milberry via Oxford Bibliographies that states that the “technologies people use to think with, communicate, and represent our experiences…

My Global Village

While having a look at Marshall McLuhan’s concept of a ‘Global Village’, which he first popularized in his 1962 book The Gutenburg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, I began to look at my own personal global village or global hut within the village.

Our Global Village

The current global village is not what McLuhan experienced or witnessed, but it is the reality of his predictions. The modern global village can only be characterized by increased inter connectivity or interplay. Technology has made the world a village where people can communicate from any part of the…

Media Mutation on Digital Culture

“Google It” is a phrase often heard in this day and age when we ask someone about a certain topic we are unfamiliar about. Vast amounts of media content and information is now available in digital form. Being able to track and visualise global digital cultures has…

Global Surveillance

Surveillance is probably one of the most popular topics in media studies. Last topic was about the system controlling surveillance, stocks and aids in curing people in hospitals. In some cases Surveillance can be either good or bad. In my other class my classmates and I thought that…

Glocality

For me, glocality is the convergence of ideas, people, and a state of mind between them, often sharing and discussing a particular topic and conversing in a particular setting, between people who are spread around the globe and overseas, generally done online. The most prominent form of glocality to me is…