Posts Tagged ‘Media’

Reading Thomas de Zengotita’s Mediated

05Dec16

A book review of Thomas de Zengotita’s Mediated.  “Saying it’s just more of what we had before is like saying a hurricane is just more breeze”. Culturally, the media form the air we breathe. They have such a widespread presence in modern life that stepping back and form theory of media in society has become nearly impossible. […]


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Photos Everywhere

26Jun13

A review of the book “Ubiquitous Photography” by Martin Hand. I have a notebook somewhere with an old advertisement for camera phones. The ad shows a woman in sexy lingerie, sending a picture to her partner to ask for his (her?) opinion. It must have been 2001, camera phones were new and the telephone providers […]


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Reading Dhiraj Murthy’s Twitter: Social Communication in the Twitter Age

12Feb13

A book review The problem with books about the impact of social media on society is that most of them are too polemic. The positive books make sweeping claims about how social media is going to change the world for the better. Their writers predict social media will cause more a participatory, open and democratic […]


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Reading Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media

06Sep10

Book review I guess there are many more people who refer to Marshal McLuhan than people who have actually read his work. This is a pity. McLuhan is certainly worth reading. “Understanding Media” was written in 1964 and is widely considered to be a visionary book. The cover claims: “In 1964, this looked like the […]


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