COMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Emoji, Attention Economy, Media Ecology
5 Sep 2016
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Order of events: material culture and historical record. How material culture is representative of history, and how we decide what gets moved forward (what we feel is, or is not, important: mass production. What we decide is important helps us decide about historical eras: attention. Selective use of attention attention economy. People are de ned by the way in which they spend their time, and occupy their attention. Material culture: things we make re ect our beliefs about the world; the things around us affect the way that we understand the world. There is an unending circularity to this implies less a circle and more a wheel moving. Certain things produce and shape our sense of importance. Material culture (2): the history and philosophy of objects and the myriad relationships between people and things. Environments of morality, textuality deeply embedded in material cultures, it becomes dif cult to see outside of them. Speaking about the value of objects and things.
