Social Acceleration/Mediation
Current media trends are constantly accelerating as we know it. Because we are constantly bombarded with new technological ideas each day, what I grasp is that we just go along with the new technological innovations without really appreciating it for what it is. We can utilize technology, yet we cannot think about how it is developed due to social accelerations and we cannot think about the other prior innovations we had. This also relates to the idea of mediation. Through the outlet of mediation (i.e. facebook, twitter, etc.) we have displaced our prior functions, and implemented our activities through these mediations.
** On the bottom of page 2 (the portion that talks about multiple-recombinant ideas), I grasped that these different ideas that circulate throughout the media may lead us to think that they are all equally valid, but they are distracting us from society, and prohibiting us to think. If all ideas were equally valid, wouldn't that would that lead to the stability of symbolic efficiency, seeing that all thoughts would be similar? Also, there was an interesting point about e-books, articles, and blog posts being convenient ways to store and share ideas. At first I thought that these media outlets would stimulate thought, but perhaps these outlets are instead stimulating interest in and curiosity about the subject.
Communication Capitalism
My understanding of communication capitalism is that it is the idea of capturing users though several contemporary communications of enjoyment. By people putting out several forms of communications, thought processes are lost. I feel that because of all these plural ideas, we become lost in the variations of ideas, and allow these new technologies to think for us and also to provide the necessary resources for us such as keeping in touch with friends, etc.
Symbolic Efficiency
From what we discussed in class about this idea, I think symbolic efficiency is practically a source of ambiguity, where there are different types of symbols, and different ways to interpret these symbols. I also saw the decline of symbolic efficiency as an imbalance of interpretation, where things we symbolize become lost or misinterpreted by new ideas that form.
**One thing I am still unsure of: How is communicative capitalism reliant on the suspension of narratives, patterns, identities and norms (pg. 31)
Hi Youdlyn--maybe I can provide a little clarification.
ReplyDeleteFirst, you raise a really interesting point regarding the equality of ideas, stability, and symbolic efficiency. My argument is that the communicative equality of ideas is not the same as stability--it can just as easily be fluidity, flux, turbulence; why? because there can be accumulations and additions that have nothing to do with meaning; they are just matters of volume. So, the absence of meaning--absence of symbolic efficiency--can contribute to turbulent effects that are separate from meaning.
the gadgets--the basic idea is that lots of gadgets keep us really distracted; thinking takes time, time without distraction;
communicative capitalism--the 'several' in my language refers to three different kinds of capture--surveillance, production, enjoyment.
I think the mediation process is a lot less stressful for everyone involved. And that’s really what it’s all about solving disputes as painlessly as possible.
ReplyDeletefamily mediation service & mediation service uk