MMEDIA 1A03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Caravaggio, Autoamputation, Online Advertising
18 Apr 2020
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Digital technologies are part of the fabric of everyday life and are integral to our experience of the world. These technologies don"t simply assist us in our daily life they shape our daily life: our work, our play, our relationships, our values, and our physical bodies . It structures our interactions, our personal relationships, and our self-presentation. Guy was walking and saw his reflection in the river and was obsessed with himself and loved the way he looked so much he lost track of time and place. He falls in love with the image of himself, he doesn"t understand that the reflection is him. As narcissus fell in love with and outing (projection, extension) of himself, man seems invariably to fall in love with the newest gadget or gimmick that is merely an extension of his own body - marshall mcluhan. We are fascinated by extensions of ourselves, through we do not recognize there as ourselves.
