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)