“The new feeling that people have about guilt is not something that can be privately assigned to some individual, but is, rather, something shared by everybody, in some mysterious way.” — Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan, 1996. The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects. Edition. Hardwired.
“Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.” — Marshall McLuhan
Environment, culture, understanding, change
“As the new electric technologies come into play, people are less and less convinced of the importance of self-expression. Teamwork succeeds private effort.” — Marshall McLuhan
Importance of self expression
“The major advances of civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.” — A.N. Whitehead
Advancement, future
Harvard reference:
Author (Year of Publication). Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher. Pages.
Beginning of my essay.
New Media
COP essay question proposal
Considering culture and how people don't specifically consider this generation to have any newly formed sub cultures.
Investigating whether the lack of face to face communication in the 21st centaury will be detrimental to the future of this generation (?)
Exploring new media, technologies and the relationship between communication
How can I convey my messages as a graphic designer when type/written communication is more challenging than spoken questions/information?
Research areas: Into Google Glass and it's addictive properties Tweets during freshers Facebook and how everyone spends their lives on it and the connection to loneliness, isolation and also in some cases depression.
Myspace and the design functions attached to it, why myspace has more personality and freedom than facebook, more functions.
Marshall McLuhan, 1996. The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects. Edition. Hardwired.
“Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.” — Marshall McLuhan
Environment, culture, understanding, change
“As the new electric technologies come into play, people are less and less convinced of the importance of self-expression. Teamwork succeeds private effort.” — Marshall McLuhan
Importance of self expression
“The major advances of civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.” — A.N. Whitehead
Advancement, future
Current generations
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/11002767/Gen-Z-Gen-Y-baby-boomers-a-guide-to-the-generations.html
Millennials (also known as the Millennial Generation or Generation Y) are the demographic cohort following Generation X. There are no precise dates when the generation starts and ends. Researchers and commentators use birth years ranging from the early 1980s to the early 2000s.
The phrase Generation Y was first used in a 1993 Ad Age article, while Millennials was coined by sociologists Neil Howe and William Strauss. As well as being comfortable sharing their entire life online, this is a selfish, self-regarding generation. "Let me take a Selfie," is their catchphrase.
Generation Z is one name used for the cohort of people born after the Millennial Generation. There is no agreement on the name or exact range of birth dates. Some sources start it at the mid or late 1990s or the more widely used period starting from the mid 2000s to the present day.
"first tribe of true digital natives" "screenagers"
Helen Miller
Jacques Derrida
1996
http://elupton.com/2009/10/deconstruction-and-graphic-design/
Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller. Published in special issue of Visible Language on graphic design history, edited by Andrew Blauvelt (1994). This is an earlier version of the essay “Deconstruction and Graphic Design,” published in our book Design Writing Research.
“Speech draws on interior consciousness, but writing is dead and abstract.”
Representation builds itself
Language informs an individual
‘We’re born into Language’
Lupton and Miller
Order of commutative hierarchy:
1. Speech writing
2. Writing
3. Typography
4. Seeing
5. Reading
“Typography has moved away from speech”
