Friday, January 15, 2010

Week 2: Media Impact

As an avid reader I am going to take the Kindle and apply McLuhan's theory of "Technological Determinism"




Object: Kindle
Amazon.com - Kindle
Enhances: Access
You can have a large number of books at any given time because it is so portable.
Reverses: Bad eyesight
News sources, doctors, friends, they have all informed me that gadgets like kindle, the iphone, etc. can cause deteriorated vision.
Obsolesces: Books
There is something about the smell of a book, the flip of its pages, the wear of its binding, that is lost with the invention of the Kindle.
Retrieves: Story time
Maybe with this new device the age old practice of reading your children a bedtime story will become more convenient and more widely performed by parents.

1 comment:

  1. Good. I think Kindle needs to improve the graphics before it could replace kids' picture books.

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