{"id":38,"date":"2018-05-06T20:11:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T20:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/mschaefer\/?p=38"},"modified":"2018-05-06T20:11:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T20:11:34","slug":"making-new-media-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/mschaefer\/2018\/05\/06\/making-new-media-make-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"“Making New Media Make Sense”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The article \u201cMaking New Media Makes Sense\u201d brought up a lot of interesting arguments and theories that have been supported and also not supported by various researchers. There is no way to specifically gauge what impact new media has on us, although we know that it encourages us to change with it. Up to this point, I have never thought about new media without actually having media or technologies to use. But when the article brought up oral culture, it made me think about how much we as humans have had to adapt due to our inventions. That is something I find truly interesting about human nature; the endless adaptations we have made, many times for simplicity and convenience.<\/span><\/p>\n

Technology especially affects people when it is new to them. As the article said, \u201cRather than \u2018using\u2019 it, people may be \u2018used by it.\u2019\u201d The struggles and frustrations it can cause are unmatched; we can\u2019t stand it when our phone doesn\u2019t load something in the first five seconds. Our human nature has become impatient and easily bothered by such little things due to technology, that it is ultimately impacting our social life. But because of the world we live in, there is always some form of technology than can make things better.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything that supports the theory of technology imprinting on the user was especially interesting to me. The power it can hold on our psyche is unfathomable, but I can see it in my own life. If I don\u2019t have my phone, I feel like I\u2019m missing something. Social media has become something that I keep checking, even though hardly anything has changed since when I last looked at it ten minutes prior. Social spaces are separated by this media, making me question how physically close people really are. Technology has the power to control every aspect of our life, and this article, and especially this class has really opened up my eyes to what is going on and searching for a reason. I am asking \u201cWhy?\u201d now and I think that that is truly important.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The article \u201cMaking New Media Makes Sense\u201d brought up a lot of interesting arguments and theories that have been supported and also not supported by various researchers. There is no way to specifically gauge what impact new media has on us, although we know that it encourages us to change with it. Up to this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7544,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/mschaefer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/mschaefer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/mschaefer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/mschaefer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/mschaefer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/mschaefer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/mschaefer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/mschaefer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/mschaefer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/mschaefer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}