time & space annihilated: innovation, communication and society

Monument

Time & Space Annihilated: Innovation, Communication

and Society

Ann DeMarle [email protected]@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

Podium Distribution Amplification

1. Cultural Narrative 2. Current Paradigms

Podium Distribution Amplification

Image: Prof saxx , Photography of Lascaux Animal Painting, Feb 2006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Prof_saxx


Coalesce Community



“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

http://www.kalimanthrope.com/Borneo_Memory_of_the_Caves.html

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer

Sumerians & Egyptians 3000 B.C.E.Chinese 1300 B.C.E.Indigenous Mexicans 600 B.C.E.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript



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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible

http://library.hds.harvard.edu/collections/rare-books/exhibits-and-selected-titles


Replication & Revolution




“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




Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metal_movable_type.jpg


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metal_movable_type.jpg

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


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metal_movable_type.jpg

http://www.scientiareview.org/pdfs/126.pdf

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_First_Telegraph.jpg

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/sais_review/v016/16.1neuman.html

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


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_First_Telegraph.jpg


““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,"



Images: https://crackerpilgrim.com/2016/07/ .

Mastering the Media

https://crackerpilgrim.com/2016/07/

-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


“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


Information at Our Fingertips

Emergence of the Internet


“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



Mastering the Media



Coalesce Community

Maintain Order

Expression

Hierarchal Power



Mastering the Media



Emerging Media Paradigms

Image: https://www.wired.com/2004/10/tail/

The Paradigms Networked Information

Images: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378015000369

The Echo Chamber


Fake News


Fake News

Fake News


Fake News

Realtime Information

The Paradigms Interactivity

Agency & Choice

Emergent Media Center’s ECHO Lake & Science Center Lake Quest


Immersion, Play, & Critical Thinking

Agency & Choice


Agency & Choice


Selfie World

Agency & Choice

Images: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/11/14/563255936/india-declares-war-on-unsafe-selfies


Selfie World

Agency & Choice


Replication, Creativity, & Commerce


Digital BiasReplication, Creativity, & Commerce

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 Transformation


Empathy


EngagementEmpathy


EngagementEmpathy

#MeToo


EngagementEmpathy

#MeToo

Mastering the Media

• 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

http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/?lng=en

http://www.indiegogo.com/israeliran?c=home

Monument

Time & Space Annihilated: Innovation, Communication

and Society

Ann DeMarle [email protected]@anndemarleslideshare.net/anndemarle/