The document discusses how media can be understood as having three components: physical artifacts or devices used to communicate information, the activities and practices people engage in to share information, and the social arrangements or organizational forms that develop around those devices and practices. It touches on how media artifacts are changing sizes, activities are shifting from communication to conversation and consumption to co-creation, and arrangements are centering more around individuals and shared/mobile experiences in a transition from mass to social media.

1. media as arrangements
“media are infrastructures with three components:
the artifacts or devices used used to communicate
or convey information, the activities and practices in
which people engage to communicate or share
information, and the social arrangements or
organizational forms that develop around those
devices and practices.”

2. media artifacts: getting smaller

3. media artifacts: getting bigger

4. media activities: shift from communication
to conversation

5. media activities: shift from
consumption to co-creation

6. media activities: shift from a “things to own” to
a “things to do” economy

7. media arrangements: the individual at the center of the universe

9. lean forward vs. sit back media

10. media arrangements: individual and
shared experiences

11. media arrangements: a mobile logic

12. artifacts, activities, arrangements:
from “mass” media to “social” media

14. in media, we’re all
together alone