Media History And Theory
Instructed by Professor Holly Willis, the course offered a rich area of investigation related to contemporary critical theory and media history. I had the opportunity to explore how theory and practice influence design-saturated moments in our everyday lives. For the final project, I have done a transmedia analysis by crafting an essay covering the future of media design by applying some of the theoretical methodologies that we have covered during this semester.
Space is Becoming an Instrument of Collective Memory
In this era of wireless communication, the rapidly evolving nature of the computing network is redefining the definition of time and space. Geographical location is almost meaningless to some people as distant places are connected virtually and instantaneously through the internet. Because of this characteristic, the invisible network has long been recognized as the shared virtual space where everything is linked. However, the conceptions and boundaries of our surrounding structures have changed much more drastically over the last 18 years since Mark Weiser’s essay introduced the idea of pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Cyberspace is no longer considered merely a parallel universe to our own. Rather in a new era of technology, many believe that physical space will have the aspects of a virtual environment.
In other words, in the pervasive computing environment, every object will share their data in the network cloud and communicate amongst themselves. At this point, I believe that the crucial questions around this idea of wireless communication in physical space should be focused on the relationship between human and the ubiquitous information. What happens if people have access to limitless information at any time without spatial constraint?