The Nascent Paradigm
With
the advent of technology, we probably didn’t foresee the supersonic speed of transition from print to
digital.
From
the equality principles of Marxism to the communism spirit of Cuba and China to
atheism leading to the debate between genesis and evolution, today’s class discussion went off on a tangent covering different
spheres of relative studies keeping intact the context -The evolution of
media.
Barath
Sir spoke about a non-fiction book by Jared Diamond, Gems, Germs, and Steel.
This book outlines a theory that civilization is not created out of superior
intelligence but is the result of a chain of developments, each made possible
by certain preconditions. Similarly, one can trace back the evolution of media
as a result of the ones that came before it. For eg: He talks about frames
(consecutive images displayed by a device) in a video which could be traced
back indirectly to the working mechanism of a flip-book to a certain extent.
Also, how video showcases linkage to photography.
Barath
Sir recollects a point made by a student about the distraction caused by ads
while reading an article on the internet. He points out how stories in the
internet today with short videos and gifs. are similar to the newspapers
(containing moving images) of the Harry Potter movie series. He also gave an
insight about how earlier people regarded technology as a hindrance to religion
and ironically, in the present era, how technology controls religion.
Considering
the vastness of this topic, there wasn’t
any formal conclusion made to it although the examples and the relative
citations enhanced a deeper understanding of evolution and new media.
- article by Vivek Das
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