In Paul Virilio’s Open Sky, it is brought to the readers’ attentions that it is important for us to consider what we as a rising generation are getting our hands onto in terms of technology and the global media. Virilio takes an in-depth look at critiquing our global media as we see it today.
Personal Connection
With this third interval, as Virilio calls it, there is the accidental loss of mobility meaning an actually loss of people moving around. Instead we are transitioning into a more unconscious state of being. Therefore, is this a state of being?
Another big point Virilio brings up is the loss of the journey throughout the concept of real time in the third interval. These journeys we encounter on a personal level loses that value of the experience through the third interval.
Personal Beliefs
As I began reading the first chapters of this book, I began to think back to my Mass Communication course where we talked about how Mark Deuze states in his article on media, culture, and society that “media are not crucial to everyday life and public communication because of their potential to reach an entire national or otherwise mass public with a restricted range of content and experiences” but instead talks of how it is the public in which who does the voluntary action immerging themselves within the media at hand.
All in all, our children are our future and digital media are not going to go anywhere any time soon. Some would argue the importance of where our technological based world is leading us.
Your Thoughts
What are your thoughts on real time and digital media/technology on the rise? How do you think it will effect our future as a whole?
Insight 101 