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A blog kept by Ira Wagman of the School of Communication at Carleton University.
Let's be honest -- this blog is so-so at best.

Saturday, March 24, 2007

mediaquotes

From Siegfried Zielinski's Deep Time of the Media:
"In the Internet, all earlier media exist side by side."

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is this different from McLuhan's claim that the content of new media is old media?

Ira Wagman said...

I would say that it's not significantly different from McLuhan's observation. One thing's for sure -- the "new" body of media studies coming from scholars out of Germany (namely Zielinski and Friedrich Kittler) are inspired by McLuhan. And Innis too.

Anonymous said...

What's with all the anonymous comments at Wagmedia? Why don't people at least take a pseudonym so that if they comment more than once, others will know who they are?