Marshall McLuhan

As you all know, mass media are a significant role in a modern world that broadcasts information in fast pace and give entertainment to audiences. Also, mass media take the role of gender socials in the society that passes norms and values about gender to us. In recent years, we can find more local “reality shows” about the women in TV shows, for example Bachelors at War, Bride Wannabes or Nowhere Girls. They also focus the phenomenon that the women are too educated and too old or no money and…

The Technological Medium and Reality Programming Right now, as I speak, there is a world full of people binge watching their favorite reality television shows, tuning into season premieres, and setting their DVR so they can watch their shows after the reality of real life. It is important to note, these actions are done through a variety of different technological mediums: the television, tablet, cell phone, and laptop. However, on a global scale, the television is used as a primary medium of…

Multiple Choice: NORAD stands for North American Aerospace Defence Command. The Suez Canal Crisis was when the Egyptian government took control of the Suez Canal. This canal was used by Britain for oil transport, so Western governments were afraid that this would be a blow to Britain’s economy. The Soviet Union gave nuclear bombs to the Cuba because the Soviet Union was planning an attack on the U.S and wanted to increase the threat from the Caribbean. Canada joined the G6, thus creating the G7…

study of existence. This links to general metaphysics in a way that it is the study of a beings, as they exist, which was later referred to ontology. “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” This statement by Father John Culkin/Marshall McLuhan really describes ontological design well. I say so because design has a lot to…

Throughout the course of a teenagers life, he/she will go through a lot of experiences, challenges and will also face adversity along the way. Although, as they face these challenges they will slowly realize that these challenges will result in positive changes down the road. For example, in John Lekich’s novel Losers’ Club, Alex and his friends have to overcome their high school bully. In Tweaked, Gordie has to overcome the hurdles of dealing with his older brother who has a drug addiction. In…

Do you have a computer or a self-phone? Technology is all around us in this world today. It is very common to have a phone or a computer of any kind or to even have both. People think only about the good things about technology but not about the bad things that are harmful to the consumers. Technology is very harmful to people because it rewires our brains and disconnects us from the world. Technology has rewired our brain over the years and dumbed us down that we have short attention spans. In…

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity”. -Albert Einstein Man beholds the gift of knowledge. However, it is what you do with that intelligence that makes one knowledgeable. Technology is an extension of the brain, just like a phone is an extension of communication. These connections must be extensively examined before plan is executed and incorporated into society otherwise, “we” may create our own demise. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Chappie…

Clive Thompson has said, “The perfect recall of silicon memory…can be an enormous boon to thinking.” This is showing the positive things that come with the internet, opening new thoughts and ideas to us the fastest way possible. In the 1960s Marshall McLuhan said, “Media is not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought”(Carr par 4). The thing that has become so beneficial to society has changed and altered our thought…

According to Bella DePaulo, a psychologist at the University Of Virginia, most people lie to someone else at least once or twice a day. The question this brings about is how does one differentiate the truth from falsehood? In Margaret Atwood's novel, The Handmaid’s Tale Offred, one of the many characters who is facing oppression in the Republic of Gilead, is struggling to know if her story is true or false. Offred lies because she is brainwashed, she wants to bring light to the story, she wants…

Impacts of Cultural Globalization Causes an Effect on Cultural Diversity in ICT Introduction Cultural globalization is defined as a phenomenon experienced in everyday of peoples’ lives, influenced by the dispersal of ideas and assets (James L. Watson, 2016). This is a process that involves the exchanging of ideologies and views through people. Ideas of culture are spreading faster than ever with new technology as an aid. Impacts of cultural globalization have on cultural diversity includes…