Mer’s Bites of Bytes » Portraying technology and ‘us’

Mer’s Bites of Bytes » Portraying technology and ‘us’
Portraying technology and ‘us’

An interesting blog entry about technology and the way it changes the way we give meaning to things and the meaning itself.

What’s interesting to me here is that the fact that modern technology, or to be specific, media and communication technology, is increasingly used to craft and convey a message and thus changes the nature of the message itself. How technology is embedded in the image, may not really change the intended message, but it does change the process of making the message. It also changes the choices of signifiers used to signify the meaning (the message). It may change the way the message is interpreted and eventually even open a door for interpretations other than the intended one.

Cellphone, TV, and newspaper, and other technologies, each has some inherent characteristics. But when these technologies are attached to a certain social actor (a person), they are given as well as give new meanings to that actor too.

There are more dimensions can be discussed from this picture, but I’ll stop here. At least, from disccusions about power and technology here, it’s shown that inserting technology within the image (old image) can renew the way how a message is conveyed, expand the message and even give alternative to the emergence of various (new) dimensions and interpretations. This discussion also shows a little bit how technology-human relations change the way technology and human are defined in their relationships with realities surrounding them.