VL04 DS

Questions

  • Which types of societies are there?
    • What’s a media society?
      • inclusion: access to digital media
    • What’s a. network society?
  • Media theories
    • Walter Benjamin - “Arti in the time of technical replication”??
    • Marshall Mc Luhan - “Global Village”, “Media extension of man”
    • Friedrich Kittler - “Recording systems” -> Media influences the content

Notes

  • Theories
    • Cohen
      • two societies - physical/digital
      • isn’t it also a mixture?
    • Floridi - revolution of our world view; information ethics
      • history = that was has been recorded
      • intelligence
    • theory of singularities (later with different meaning again)
      • post humanismus: point when tech beats human (not the point here)