time & space annihilated: innovation, communication and society
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Monument
Time & Space Annihilated: Innovation, Communication
and Society
Ann DeMarle demarle@champlain.edu@anndemarleslideshare.net/anndemarle/
Across time and cultures, humans have designed forms and tools with which to communicate within larger governing structures. From the written word to virtual reality, these innovations have redefined our notions of ourselves, the universe, and society. Arguably our digital communication is causing as profound a change as Guttenberg's Press did. This talk will explore past and future communication technologies, the culture that gave birth to them, and possible implications for the future.
Communication Technology Cultural Narrative, Individual Choice
Communication Technology Cultural Narrative, Individual Choice
Podium Distribution Amplification
Podium Distribution Amplification
Podium Distribution Amplification
Podium Distribution Amplification
1. Cultural Narrative 2. Current Paradigms
Podium Distribution Amplification
1. Cultural Narrative 2. Current Paradigms
Podium Distribution Amplification
Image: Prof saxx , Photography of Lascaux Animal Painting, Feb 2006
Image: Prof saxx , Photography of Lascaux Animal Painting, Feb 2006
Coalesce Community
Image: Prof saxx , Photography of Lascaux Animal Painting, Feb 2006
“The shaman’s vision gives meaning to the hunting and killing of animals on which these societies depend.”
—Karen Armstrong, “The Case for God”
Coalesce Community
Image: Luc-Henri Fage, "Borneo, Memory of the Caves", 1999, http://www.kalimanthrope.com/Borneo_Memory_of_the_Caves.html
“He has faced death, come out the other side, and is now psychologically prepared to risk his life for his people.”
—Karen Armstrong, “The Case for God”
Coalesce Community
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer
Sumerians & Egyptians 3000 B.C.E.Chinese 1300 B.C.E.Indigenous Mexicans 600 B.C.E.
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer
Restricted to scribes employed by king or temple for:• propaganda• myths• accounting
Sumerians & Egyptians 3000 B.C.E.Chinese 1300 B.C.E.Indigenous Mexicans 600 B.C.E.
Maintain Order
Maintain Order
“Ancient writing’s main function was to “facilitate the enslavement of other
human beings.””—Claude Levi-Strauss
—Jared Diamond, “Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fate of Human Societies”
Maintain Order
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dipylon_Inscription.JPG
Mycenaean Linear B (1400 B.C.E.) to Classical Greek (740 B.C.E.)
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dipylon_Inscription.JPG
Mycenaean Linear B (1400 B.C.E.) to Classical Greek (740 B.C.E.)
“Whoever of the dancers now dances lightly,
he shall get me as his prize.”
Expression
Image: Jovhannes manuscript of 1053 C.E. (Ms. 3793). At the Matenadaran in Yerevan, Armenia. Photo by Raffi Kojian.
Image: Jovhannes manuscript of 1053 C.E. (Ms. 3793). At the Matenadaran in Yerevan, Armenia. Photo by Raffi Kojian.
Hierarchal Power
Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible & http://library.hds.harvard.edu/collections/rare-books/exhibits-and-selected-titles
Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible & http://library.hds.harvard.edu/collections/rare-books/exhibits-and-selected-titles
Replication & Revolution
Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible & http://library.hds.harvard.edu/collections/rare-books/exhibits-and-selected-titles
Replication & Revolution
Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible & http://library.hds.harvard.edu/collections/rare-books/exhibits-and-selected-titles
“Some 6M-7M pamphlets were printed in the first decade of the Reformation, more than a quarter of them Luther’s.”
—“How Luther went viral: Social media in the 16th Century,” The Economist, 12/17/11
Replication & Revolution
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metal_movable_type.jpg
Replication & Revolution
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metal_movable_type.jpg
““...allowed scientists of all fields to compare their findings with others. Scientific theories started to form on a large scale because more supportive evidence was accessible. In mathematics, a field which relies heavily on uniform systems, mathematicians were able to build upon other works as they became available.””
—Welch, Killeen, Davidson, ”Inventions That Changed History” Ch 1, http://www.scientiareview.org/pdfs/126.pdf
Replication & Revolution
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_First_Telegraph.jpg
“The surface of the earth will be networked with wire, and every wire will be a nerve. The earth will become a huge animal with 10 million hands, and in every hand a pen to record whatever the directing soul may dictate! No limit can be assigned to the value of the invention.”
—Sydney Morse to his brother—Johanna Neuman: "The Media's Impact on International Affairs, Then and Now,"
Time and Space is Now Annihilated
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_First_Telegraph.jpg
“The surface of the earth will be networked with wire, and every wire will be a nerve. The earth will become a huge animal with 10 million hands, and in every hand a pen to record whatever the directing soul may dictate! No limit can be assigned to the value of the invention.”
—Sydney Morse to his brother—Johanna Neuman: "The Media's Impact on International Affairs, Then and Now,"
“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas, but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate."”
— Henry David Thoreau
Time and Space is Now Annihilated
Time and Space is Now Annihilated
““Just imagine what could have happened if the passing success of the Lyons silk workers' insurrection had been known in all corners of the nation at once!” argued a horrified member of King Louis-Philippe's court.”
—Johanna Neuman: "The Media's Impact on International Affairs, Then and Now,"
Time and Space is Now Annihilated
Images: https://crackerpilgrim.com/2016/07/ .
Mastering the Media
Images: https://crackerpilgrim.com/2016/07/ .
Mastering the Media
-John Blair, “Calvin Coolidge & the Advent of Radio”, VT Historical Society, Vol 44, No. 1, Winter 1976
“He developed talent as a radio speaker. He spoke slowly, used short sentences, discarded unusual words, was direct, forthright and unsophisticated in his utterances. And so over radio, he went straight to the popular heart.”
—William Allen White
Mastering the Media
-John Blair, “Calvin Coolidge & the Advent of Radio”, VT Historical Society, Vol 44, No. 1, Winter 1976
“He developed talent as a radio speaker. He spoke slowly, used short sentences, discarded unusual words, was direct, forthright and unsophisticated in his utterances. And so over radio, he went straight to the popular heart.”
—William Allen White
Mastering the Media
Images: Time Life Pictures/National Archives/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Global Mass Transmission
Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean_presidential_campaign,_2004
Global Mass Transmission
Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean_presidential_campaign,_2004
Global Mass Transmission
“The eventual total cost of the commercial was $250,000 - an unheard of price in 1971 for an advertisement.” (approximately $2 million in today’s dollar)
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'd_Like_to_Teach_the_World_to_Sing_(In_Perfect_Harmony)#cite_note-coke_hilltop-0
Global Mass Transmission
“The eventual total cost of the commercial was $250,000 - an unheard of price in 1971 for an advertisement.” (approximately $2 million in today’s dollar)
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'd_Like_to_Teach_the_World_to_Sing_(In_Perfect_Harmony)#cite_note-coke_hilltop-0
Global Mass Transmission
Information at Our Fingertips
Emergence of the Internet
Information at Our Fingertips
Emergence of the Internet
Information at Our Fingertips
“Facebook launched in 2004, YouTube in 2005, Twitter in 2006, the iPhone in 2007. By 2008, Twitter had 1M users, and only about 1 of 6 Americans had a smartphone. Today, Twitter has more than 300M users, and 2 of 3 Americans own smartphones.”
—-Jill LaPore, The New Yorker, 8/16, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/did-
social-media-produce-the-new-populism
Coalesce Community
Maintain Order
Expression
Hierarchal Power
Replication & Revolution
Time and Space is Now Annihilated
Mastering the Media
Global Mass Transmission
Information at Our Fingertips
Coalesce Community
Maintain Order
Expression
Hierarchal Power
Replication & Revolution
Time and Space is Now Annihilated
Mastering the Media
Global Mass Transmission
Information at Our Fingertips
Emerging Media Paradigms
Image: https://www.wired.com/2004/10/tail/
The Paradigms Networked Information
Image: https://www.wired.com/2004/10/tail/
The Paradigms Networked Information
Images: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378015000369
The Echo Chamber
The Paradigms Networked Information
Fake News
The Paradigms Networked Information
Fake News
Fake News
The Paradigms Networked Information
Fake News
Realtime Information
The Paradigms Interactivity
Agency & Choice
Emergent Media Center’s ECHO Lake & Science Center Lake Quest
The Paradigms Interactivity
Immersion, Play, & Critical Thinking
Agency & Choice
Emergent Media Center’s ECHO Lake & Science Center Lake Quest
The Paradigms Interactivity
Immersion, Play, & Critical Thinking
Agency & Choice
The Paradigms Interactivity
Agency & Choice
The Paradigms Interactivity
Selfie World
Agency & Choice
Images: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/11/14/563255936/india-declares-war-on-unsafe-selfies
The Paradigms Interactivity
Selfie World
Agency & Choice
The Paradigms Interactivity
Replication, Creativity, & Commerce
The Paradigms Interactivity
Replication, Creativity, & Commerce
The Paradigms Interactivity
Replication, Creativity, & Commerce
The Paradigms Interactivity
Digital BiasReplication, Creativity, & Commerce
The Paradigms Interactivity
Digital BiasReplication, Creativity, & Commerce
The Paradigms Interactivity
Digital BiasReplication, Creativity, & Commerce
The Paradigms Interactivity
Digital BiasReplication, Creativity, & Commerce
The Paradigms Participation
Trolls, Bots,& Artificial Intelligence
The Paradigms Participation
Trolls, Bots,& Artificial Intelligence
The Paradigms Participation
Trolls, Bots,& Artificial Intelligence
Collaborative Communities
The Promise Participation
Collaborative Communities Persistence of Memory
The Promise Participation
Collaborative Communities Persistence of Memory
The Promise Transformation
The Promise Transformation
Empathy
The Promise Transformation
EngagementEmpathy
The Promise Transformation
EngagementEmpathy
#MeToo
The Promise Transformation
EngagementEmpathy
#MeToo
The Promise Transformation
EngagementEmpathy
#MeToo
Mastering the Media
The Promise Transformation
• French Ministry of Culture, “Lascaux: Visit the Grotto”, http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/?lng=en
• Marshall McLuhan, “Understanding Media”, 1964
• Elizabeth Eisenstein, “The Printing Press as an Agent of Change”, 1984
• Johanna Neuman, “Lights, Camera, War: Is Media Technology Driving International Politics?”, 1996
• Ray Kurzweil, “The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, 2006
• Janet Murray, “Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace”, 1998
• Janet Murray, “Inventing the Medium: Principles of Interaction Design as a Cultural Practice”, MIT Press, 2011
• Karen Armstrong, “The Case for God”, 2010
• Jared Diamond, “Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fate of Human Societies”, 2011
• Piotr Czerski , “We the Web Kids”, 2012
• Ronny Edry, “We Love You”, 2012, http://www.indiegogo.com/israeliran?c=home
• Jill LaPore, “The Party Crashers: Is the new populism about the message or the medium?”, The New Yorker, 02/22/2016
• “How Luther went viral: Social media in the 16th Century”, The Economist, 12/17/11
• Ann DeMarle, “Let Us Entertain You: Entertainment industries propel technologies that engage our seven senses and blur the barriers of work and play”, Computer Magazine, 8/117
• Ann DeMarle, “How do we keep the virtual world from being infected with real world biases?” Philadelphia Enquirer, 10/3/17
Worth Reading/Experiencing
Monument
Time & Space Annihilated: Innovation, Communication
and Society
Ann DeMarle demarle@champlain.edu@anndemarleslideshare.net/anndemarle/
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