Medium is the Message! ::::::::G11

(Maziar, Ron, Rammy, Yung-Hoon)

We asked each other, why is the medium the message? And the more we tried to disprove it the more we supported it. One of us was saying that because different mediums can convey the same message and different messages can be conveyed with a medium therefore this is not true, but we argued that even this, shows the relation of the medium and the message and how actually medium is the message.

In relation to the second text, we believe that the radio is a great example where the radio itself as an object doesn’t have any message, it is a tool! But it is when the medium is distributed through it that it broadcasts a message! It gains a message and if the same program was transmitted through TV it would have had a different one. We also talked about how different mediums can create different perception, where most of this is depended on the receiver and the transmitter.
We discussed today’s issues like the cartoons of the prophet Mohammad and how it would have had a different message if another medium, rather than “Cartoons” were used.