Media is ubiquitous in modern life and constantly evolving to fit into everyday activities. While media exposure can have downsides like loss of privacy or overstimulation, media also helps people survive and connect in a messy, imperfect world. The document discusses different perspectives on media including becoming critical of its influence, fully embracing it, or using it as a tool to spread ideas.

1. Living Information
Media & Information
Course Review

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media are ubiquitous and pervasive

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there are no ‘old’ or ‘new’ media

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in fact, media disappear

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…except when they do not work

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…but we love our media!

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concurrent media exposure

8. … and using media is making media
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there is no such thing as TMI

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we live in public

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there is a dark side to media

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(and we’re working on that)

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media ‘fit’ into everyday life

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media evolve

15. using media to survive
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struggle to reproduce

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(like us), media are messy, not perfect

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we are all (media) zombies

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…and that can be a good thing

20. our options?
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we can wage war on the machines

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we can surrender to media

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we can become media

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the scholarly answer

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Truman’s answer

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your answer?

39. MEDIA