Media Life is a course intended for undergraduate students across campus. Its goal is to make people aware of the role that media play in their everyday life. The key to understanding a "media life" is to see our lives not as lived WITH media (which would lead to a focus on media effects and media-centric theories of society), but rather IN media (where the distinction between what we do with and without media dissolves).
22. Amsterdam for a PhD? Portugal to study journalism? New Zealand for rugby? Florida for anti-smoking campaign? Kansas for a conference? South Africa on honeymoon? Holland shopping for a VW beetle? Hong Kong looking for a good trip? Japan for a rock festival? Petra (Jordan) looking for the Holy Grail? … on tour with Skinflower ?
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Editor's Notes
31:03 – 36:08 1 st visit to the library 1:07:35 film scene finding the library
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This is not a new idea: it all strated with the design of the MEMEX device: 1945
Apple Knowledge Navigator:1987
http://youtu.be/MpjpVAB06O4 Siri for iPhone 5
Enter MyLifeBits: Everything Stored Digitally: Lifelogging
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One,_No_one_and_One_Hundred_Thousand date of publication: 1924 (1909); awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934 Vitangelo discovers by way of a completely irrelevant question that his wife poses to him that everyone he knows, everyone he has ever met, has constructed a Vitangelo persona in their own imagination and that none of these personas corresponds to the image of Vitangelo that he himself has constructed and believes himself to be. How can one come to know the true foundation, the substate of the self? Vitangelo seeks to catch it by surprise as its shows itself in a brief flash on the surface of consciousness. But this attempt at revealing the secret self, chasing after it as if it were an enemy that must be forced to surrender, does not give the desired results. Just as soon as it appears, the unknown self evaporates and recomposes itself into the familiar attitudes of the superficial self. Once cured of his illness, Vitangelo has a completely new perspective, completely "foreign". He no longer desires anything and seeks to follow moment by moment the evolution of life in him and the thing that surround him. He no longer has any history or past, he is no longer in himself but in everything around and outside of him.