2. No single piece of our
mental world is to be
hermetically sealed off
from the rest, and there
is not a square inch in
the whole domain of
our human existence
over which Christ, who
is Sovereign over all,
does not cry: ‘Mine!’
Abraham Kuyper
2
32. The most important thing about the
communications we live among is not that
they deceive (which they do); or that they
broadcast a limiting ideology (which they
do); or emphasize sex and violence (which
they do); or convey diminished images of
the good, the true and the normal (which
they do); or corrode the quality of art
(which they do); or reduce language
(which they surely do) – . . .
30
33. . . . but that with all their lives, skews, and
shallow pleasures, they saturate our way of
life with a promise of feeling . . .
Todd Gitlin
Media Unlimited (2002)
31
34. It is an omnivorous freedom, freedom to
behold, to seek distraction, to seek
distraction from distraction . . . to enjoy
one’s rootlessness, to relish the
evanescent.
Todd Gitlin
32
35. Where do all these highways go
now that we are free?
Leonard Cohen
33
38. [Much] of the time the everyday noise of
the media is the buzz of the
inconsequential, the just there. This is
neither the media’s downside nor their
saving grace. The buzz of the
inconsequential is the media’s essence. This
pointlessness is precisely what we are, by
and large, not free not to choose.
Todd Gitlin
36
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They may not go to the cinema,
16h 41 mins in 2002; 2h 23 min per day
Children in multichannel households watch 28% more than in terrestrial only
in the past 30 days, 17% of Twitter users (vs. 12% of non-Twitter social media users) have accessed social media from a washroom or toilet
No. of visitors from every age segment is growing - not surprising considering that the total audience has grown 2700% in the past year.
Proportion of visitors to Twitter under the age of 35 is increasing at a breakneck pace. The most notable positive shifts are evident among the 12-17 and 18-24 year old segments, which are coming at the expense of the 35+ segments.
move from . . . >>
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includes ability to easily get in contact - not contact form
move from . . . >>
to . . . >>
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of image
to . . .>>
>> from information society . . .
this phrase distracts us from the primary role of the media by giving it a rational/intellectual label. Feels very positive. Don’t we all want more information?
>> to experience society
Rationalism in west given rise to deep need for feeling
What we usually want from media is not information but experience . . .
media invite us to cross a gap from the image here to what was/is/might be there
[continues] . . . feeling, even if we may not know exactly how we feel about one or another batch of images except that they are there, streaming out of screens large and small, or bubbling in the background of life, but always coursing onward. (p. 6)
Paradox is that technonomads are also freely accessible to other people’s wills.
Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA
Media Unlimited, p. 9
Facebook / Twitter
Media can be help us expose false thinking
Wrong ideas, wrong attitudes, wrong values
Not false Christian ideas but ways in which we think and behave in a worldly way rather than in a Christian way
The flip side is that media can be used to encourage Christian thinking
Not just, don’t conform, but be transformed
Seeing right thinking working out
Or seeing negative consequences of wrong thinking can encourage us in thinking rightly about life, the universe and everything
And it can encourage us to hold strongly to Christian values
More outward-directed benefit is that it can be used in training and preparing people for