Monday 9 November 2009

Pervasive Journalsim?


Something about Pervasive Journalism brought to mind the issue of Artificial Life and the concept of robosapiens which was mention in the last post. Amazingly, apart from the contemporary scholars like Stellarc, who also belonged to the school of thought which believed that man has always been coupled with technology making them prosthetic bodies (http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/arcx.html- 10 November 2009), Marshall McLuhan in his 1964 book "Understanding Media: the extensions of man" also made reference to technology being an extension of humans just as clothes were an extension of the skin and the wheel was an extension of the feet.
With this, Pervasive Journalism could be said to be a way where man comes in contact with his inseparable half, technology. According to Kramer et al "This pervasive recording of events demonstrates the emergence of a quality of ubiquitous and pervasive journalistic practice. On the one hand we are beginning to observe a new quality of journalism
emerge. On the other hand we witness how this could lead towards a culture where people observe each other constantly and therefore build a newer “panoptic” quality of surveillance society."


*Picture taken from News and Technology lecture presentation by Gavin Stewart for the course Media and Cyberculture- 10 November, 2009.

*McLuhan M (1964): Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.

McGraw-Hill

*http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1410000/1409355/p575-kramer.pdf?key1=1409355&key2=8191977521&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=62031270&CFTOKEN=67980766)

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