Chata-Mari's journey into a Virtual Environment

Our whole group hasn’t met in person or on second life, but we have discussed the group project in a Facebook group chat we make a few weeks ago. We first decided we would break down the reading that came along with the brief, between each of us and we would meet and discuss our views and opinions. Well doing this in the group chat we have decided what the title and theme of the project will be and what each member is giving a task to complete. One of my fellow teammates got in contact with other people who have completed the course and they discussed the previews projects and how past years found it best to complete the task. By doing this She gained a better inside into the group project and this hugely benefited the group by, giving us some guidance’s into picking a theme. With our knowledge about previous years, we began discussing what theme we would pick. In the Facebook group, we discussed many different themes we could research, but one stood out to us and this was the im...

We spend this weeks lesson discussing and learning about McLuhan theories into technology and how they impact our lives. McLuhan believed that the "The medium is the message" this flips the normal belief that the message holds a higher importance than the medium, in which it is portrayed on. Mcluhan views the medium as more than a way of portraying a message. McLuhan renders the message useless to the medium and the impact it has on us as a society. McLuhan theory about the medium being the message changed the way I thought about technology and the impact it has on us as a society. When McLuhan wrote this theory he was referencing to the television and radio in the 20th century. As we process further into another century, technology improves and the way it impacts us changes too.  Over the last few years we have become more of Global village compared to the medium McLuhan was talking about. The introduction of the internet lead to many different forms of connecting to ...