Ryan:
I'm wondering if you can elaborate on something
here, as I find what you're saying to be important,
of course. in applying language, like McLuhan's
environment to technologies or media, how do you
disentangle our understanding of them from the
environment itself?
Carefully?
Stahlman's is a pretty good critique of Eric Schmidt's and Jared Cohen's
The New Digital Age, which features exemplar Internet successes,
Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. And blurbed enthusiastically in
advance by Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger, General Michael Hayden,
Madeleine
On Apr 30, 2013, at 5:00 AM, nettime-l-requ...@mail.kein.org wrote:
Not HOT (like radio, although with many similar qualities) and not COOL
(like television, against which it is most directly opposed), the INTERNET
brings with it a new set of behaviors and attitudes.
Hi Mark,
I'm
Folks:
One of the least understood *distinctions* drawn by Marshall McLuhan was
the one he made between HOT and COOL media.
In simplest terms, this refers to the broad differences between behaviors
and attitudes in an environment saturated with radio (HOT) and with one
saturated by
