We enjoy the aspect of the possibility of swimming but not the water itself. The water might be cold, but it will get warmer after submerging our whole body. We are not reconstructing anything around us, just simply enjoying the content. #hwa2 #ideologyinmotion
#hwa2 #ideologyinmotion I think what you did say looking back and even McLuhan is to not look so much into what kind of media we consume on daily but in a way figure out why it shapes us and analyze why media shapes people like it does on a day to day basis.
The idea that McLuhan wants you to notice the water you're swimming in means he wants you to reflect and look around to what is going on, unintentionally, without you realizing, rather than just listening to him and it going in through one ear and out the other #hwa2 #ideologyinmotion
#hwa2 #ideologyinmotion McLuhan's description of rear-view thinking is not meant to have you analyze which forms of media are extensions of which. Instead, he wants us to start facing media's effect on us head-on. He wants us to delve deeper and become media literate, to notice the why and how.
What Ashley meant was that he is reminding us to think who is giving us the info, not just about info. #hwa2 #ideologyinmotion
#hwa2 #ideologyinmotion I think that you want us not to overthink WHERE we get our information from and critique every move. I think the focus shifts towards how the information forces us to act and think in a particular way.
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Its hard to articulate my understanding,but i think the quote means try not scrutinize the information presented, but see hows it a/effecting oneself: is the content shifting your mentality on something? Hows one's emotion one the information?
I feel like you are saying that McLuhan wants us to be aware of the sources we gather our information from and how that affects the way we feel about the content #hwa2 #ideologyinmotion
#hwa2 #ideologyinmotion I think you mean that our job isn't necessarily to try to understand everything around us but rather just be aware they exist. The water that we might be swimming in can be a kiddy pool or the ocean, so I think its important to recognize that what sorts of water we are in
#hwa2 #ideologyinmotion This reminds me of the bo burnham quote "Gift shop at the gun range a mass shooting at the mall" In the way that context and location of information, marketing, media, etc. is just as relevant as the message itself
It pretty much means that we should pay attention to how the medium itself changes us. The water you are talking about I'm guessing its the phones, and computers we use daily in our lives and we should start thinking about how this is changing us daily every time we use them. #hwa2 #ideologyinmotion
#hwa2 #ideologyinmotion The analogy you made was comparing how water is normal for a fish to how media surrounding people is normal for them. When you apply the "media is invisible" concept, it puts into perspective how we are so influenced by the media we consume to the point where we perceive it-
I guess what you mean by that is to be mindful of what you’re currently in. To be aware of your surroundings is to be present of the effects taking place.
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You meant that he is reminding us to think about who is giving us the information, not just the information itself.
He wants us to realize our surroundings and how it is making us react while using media. If we were swimming we would notice the water and how it is affecting us. #hwa2 #ideologyinmotion
Essentially, question and embrace your real-time feelings as you are interacting with McLuhan's work, rather than attempting to cling onto rational and already built-in frameworks. Use your own observations to amek y our own conclusions, such as the bizzare title image. #hwa2 #ideologyinmotion
McLuhan meant that he wants you to have design awareness, meaning that he wants you ask who was the media built for, for who, and what else could be built. It's not about anything specific but rather seeing the design as a whole and how you can widely apply it. #hwa2 #ideologyinmotion
You meant that we shouldn't focus on the message we're receiving as the most important info, but instead, we should focus on how the way we consume messages can shape us. we are actively being rewired by the media we consume and how we do it #hwa2 #ideologyinmotion
You meant that McLuhan wants us to question and question everything, almost as if you are trying to get to the root of it and not just float along like you’re on a lazy river or something. #hwa2 #ideologyinmotion
#hwa2 #ideologyinmotion Ashley meant that thinking is less about “what does this mean” and more about “what am I standing in right now.” Like what’s the vibe of this space, who made it, and what is it slowly doing to ME while I’m here. Because it’s literally just quiet influence.
i think what you're trying to say to us about the McLuhan line is to not just look at everything at surface level. we should be completely engaged in what we are doing and find every part that may help us understand a topic more than we could imagine #hwa2 #ideologyinmotion
He wants us to be more aware of the environment we find ourselves in when engaging with media and wants us to be more aware of how that impacts us. Don't just analyze the contents in books or tv, look at how they as mediums influence us. #hwa2 #ideologyinmotion
Not sure if it is correct but maybe you mean that media is not something you look at one angle, it's everywhere and he want us to noticing instead of trying to find hidden meaning. so it's about the experience itself!
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You meant that McLuhan cares less about media’s content and more about how the medium itself shapes our habits and thinking, becoming an invisible environment we rarely notice.
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McLuhan means that design awareness is more valuable than deconstructing actual content. What is the medium doing to us? #hwa2 #ideologyinmotion
McLuhan doesn’t just want us to decode content because he wants us to not focus on what a piece of media says or is about but to look at the medium. He wants us to look at how the same message on a different media massages us into different ways of thinking. #hwa2 #ideologyinmotion
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I interpret this as meaning while reading he doesn't want the reader to try and figure out the seemingly random pictures because it is the media that is creating the environment and it is meant to be random. So instead of picking it apart be aware of the environment your in.
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Well I think it is going beyond the surface level. And noticing the meidum itself?
Mcluhan wants us to notice that we are the content. we created the swimming pool and we’re in the swimming pool creating the ripples. we shouldn’t be trying to figure out where those ripples are coming from if we’re the ones creating them ?! #hwa2 #ideologyinmotion
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Take mind to the fact that whatever platform you take in content shapes your worldview of that content by virtue of the surrounding environment and laws dictated by that platform/medium.
