Media Mindfulness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAVmB5dKZZ8

Hey, nice handwriting! This video is in response to “The Machine is Us/ing Us,” which I posted about here (if you haven’t seen it, you really must!).
The text in the video reads as folllows:
Media philosopher Marshall McLuhan observed that “The Medium is the Message”. That is, the form of media is what changes consciousness irrespective [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

This video by Kansas State University’s Mike Wesch explains so much better than text as to why new media are in many ways vastly superior modes of production and communication, which begs the question: how is an education system based on 19th Century modes of thinking going to deal with this emerging reality? More [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MayKmiCSsEo

The folks at Media Channel have created News Trust, a social news network. What is “social news”? Building on the new paradigm of collective, self-organized intelligence that is the Web 2.0, readers can rate what they are reading as “trustworthy.” The old paradigm based on advertising determines what’s popular by what people buy, or the [...]