David Bobbitt, Wesleyan College Enculturation: http://enculturation.net/teaching-mcluhan (Published: December 30, 2011) “After three thousand years of explosion, by means of fragmentary and mechanical technologies, the Western world is imploding” (McLuhan 3).1 With these words on the first page of Understanding Media published in 1964, Marshall McLuhan burst onto the
Our minds have merged with software, and we re living with new sensations that aren t always easy or comfortable to articulate. Inside this post, you ll find eight stories of psychological experiences that have emerged under the influence of digital media. How do these transformations of the private sphere force us to reconsider how we design our (digital) public spaces?