media effects - Blog Assignment - 6

Using McLuhan's "Tetrad of Media" (see diagram below), choose a medium or media application or tool (e.g. newspaper, books, radio, tv, film, internet, computer games, handphone, instant messaging, blogging, online advertising, youtube, facebook etc.) and explain its media effects? Please refer to Week 9's lecture notes plus your own research to discuss this topic.

critical reflection 1st:

in Marshall McLuhan theory there 2 type of media, cool media and hot media. the media application or medium or tool that i choose is

handphone

enhances :

communicated with people in private conversation and in high speed.

obsolesces :

we can talk or communicated with other no matter how long the distance are. plus the conversation we can have even we in hurry to office or we in the middle of doing something because handphone is portable and can carry anywhere.

retrieves :

compare with normal phone that usually we used it in house, handphone is more used phone because the usage is not only talk but we can also texting message, playing games or even do video call.

obsolesces :

people might get obsess with it. they might even spend a big amount of money to buy the new handphone or the latest one. they also will spend time more on texting or playing game in handphone.

critical reflection 2nd:
the second tool or medium is

blogging

enhances :

to share our thought with people

obsolesces :

we can share our thought with other that might read our blog. its also a place for us to releases our problem or tension or maybe just to share our knowledge.

retrieves :

blog can even set up as private blog. the only reader is the author and the person that the author invite. it same as our private diaries. and it more easy because we can type witch typing is more faster compare with writing.

obsolesces :

the blogger will write whatever they like. not even think what others might thinking or feel. the worst part is, when blogger used blog to reveal they friend secret or something like that. and who there to stop them.

personal reflection :

i think the class is to small for big amount of student. at the back of class, students talk to each other make the class noisy and hard for me to focus in class to listen what lecturer talk. and i do believe some of them just come to get the attendance. and hope the lecturer ask them to be more quite so that others student can focus on study.