Taxonomy of Distance in Media Reception
Question: can media be grouped by distance between the ostensible (or commonly accepted) "sender" and the intended receiver, or audience? They are mostly "possibilities," as we found today in class that the concept of authorship itself is slippery. It is getting more and more difficult to delineate how human beings are connected in their receipt of information (not to mention how to distinguish what kinds of information were "created" by a "human"). I am therefore sticking to media that are most likely "used," and the content created, by people. These are examples, of course; I don’t claim to be comprehensive.
Kathleen Pickett
Winter 2003
Question: can media be grouped by distance between the ostensible (or commonly accepted) "sender" and the intended receiver, or audience? They are mostly "possibilities," as we found today in class that the concept of authorship itself is slippery. It is getting more and more difficult to delineate how human beings are connected in their receipt of information (not to mention how to distinguish what kinds of information were "created" by a "human"). I am therefore sticking to media that are most likely "used," and the content created, by people. These are examples, of course; I don’t claim to be comprehensive.
Kathleen Pickett
Winter 2003