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Boundary transgressing animals allow the sight of intense social interest or fascination. A boundary transgressing animal attracts interest and is considered either a monster or sacred because they don’t fit into a predetermined category. More specifically, this type of animal is mostly considered an monster when they can fit into multiple categories. Society tends to […]

The music of the United States is different from other countries because of African influence. White people tend to notoriously clap on the wrong beat. If you think about the people that settled here, they were looking for religious freedom. Music and beats is not something that they were exposed to. Notoriously clapping on the […]

I never really knew much about the history behind the internet.  A huge part of the Cold war research involved targeting. Computers became central to this research. First, we started with analog computers but then we upgraded to electrical computers. Electronic computers were made up of vacuum tubes. Tubes allowed amplification. ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator […]

Signal is what you want to hear and noise is the stuff that is not the signal. Sound is disaggregated from the natural world. We want to hear what we want to hear. I think this is a metaphor for how we think about life. Sound has meaning and the natural world has its own […]

Today was a real history day. During the Cold War the U.S adopted a policy of containment. The goal of the policy was to “contain” communism and Soviet influence. The U.S fights proxy wars aimed at stopping communism from spreading. An interesting notion is that of mutually assured destruction keeps peace in the world(MAD). I […]

Technology alters perception. Carr argues that technology alters self and does so in powerful ways.  I do believe that technology creates different selves. Sometimes the self that we project through technology is not the same as our self that we show in real life. Marshall McLuhan said, “the medium is the message.” Technology has different […]

Technology changes mentalities. Some people don’t watch TV. In some instances, movies and television influences our look and what we consume. I believe we learn to think from movies and television. The goal of entertainment is how to make consumers enjoy the experience. TV is all aesthetics now. We subconsciously apply what we see from […]

Technology does create new kinds of thinking. The meaning of time differs for different people in different cultures. Some cultures place an emphasis on using your time wisely i.e. maximizing your time so that it isn’t wasted. Other cultures believe time spent with loved ones should be more important than time spent at your job. […]

In class we discussed the loudness war. Previous to reading the article I never noticed or realized  that the trend of increasing audio levels in music was an movement.  Music trends change over generations because the trends depend on how invested people are in the music of the time. Our music preferences are also influenced […]

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