Michael Fraser

Mike Fraser

Big Bang

Saxophone

John Lennon

Newton

ref. of the week: Lawrence Lessig

seize the bull

ref.

Lawrence Lessig

bald eagle

Copyright

jack white

clockwork owl

Marshall McLuhan Monday

This weeks MMM features the ubiquitous
social networking site Facebook.
Using Marshall McLuhan's Media Tetrad, 
we will explore a different medium each
week, with accompanying links
and other things to add pizazz.


FACEBOOK 

Facebook Enhances:
nostalgia
memory
rate of retrieval
community
guilt

Facebook Retrieves:
a wave hello
high school popularity: "Look at all my friends!"

publishing/self invasion of privacy

phone books

and now, a general announcement

telegrams

petitions

peeping toms/stalkers

"Look what I found!"

community theatre

photo albums

the invitation

soliloquey

rearview mirror

cooler talk

the fishbowl

book shelves

cave art

parascope

business and care cards

"Just thinking of you!"

Facebook overheats and Reverses into:

escapism

switch off

"Stop, you're making a scene!"

Facebook makes Obsolete:

privacy

communicating in person

Borders/Nation States

autocracy

spelling and Grammar

Closed Court

Richard Long

Richard Long

Japanese Macaque

Penny Farthing Bicycle

Victor of Aveyron

Chronos, The Personification of Time