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Blog Post #2 - Mechanized Communication

  This week we were instructed to share any course material that we found interesting. One quote that stood out to me from the course was “The development of ‘mechanized’ communications media such as mass-circulation newspapers had shifted the balance decisively in favour of space and power, over time, continuity and knowledge.” (Innis, 1951). When we talked about this quote in class we discussed new media creating an obsession with ‘present mindedness’ which disregards our concerns for the past or future. This remark made me remember a conversation I had in my course Social Media and Social Life where we discussed social media as being a platform where everyone is obsessed with showing what they are doing at the moment whether that be posting stories, sending Snapchats, posting on your timeline or even now using the new social media app BeReal. In this class, we also discussed how social media allows users to know what’s going on at that moment. Twitter was the main example discus...
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Blog #3 - Bias of Communication

  According to Innis, space-biased media are more modern media that relay information to a mass audience and conquer far distances. Space-biased media is however more short-lived than time-biased media. Time-biased media can include media like stone tablets, manuscripts, or clay which are made to withstand time as they are more permanent or long-lasting. The media artifact that is more space-biased is the virtual tour of Vimy Ridge on the Government of Canada’s website. This virtual tour defies distance and enables those worldwide to see the memorial without having to be there physically. The photos and short clips of the monument are all more modern media that relay information to a mass audience as defined by Innis. At the same time, however, one could argue that these virtual tours have an aspect of time-biased media because it involves the monument itself which is time-biased. The combination of using space and time-biased media to create this virtual experience is what helps v...
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"We choose what we see about our past": Vimy Ridge

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  "We choose what we see about our past." I chose the above quote from one of the historians in the CBC's Video "Why Vimy Ridge Matters" because it encapsulates the central themes discussed in the video, symbolized on the monuments' webpage and provides an entry point for applying Harrold Innis' theories of space and time biased media. Defining Theory  According to James Carey's interpretation of Innis' theory, Time bias refers to a culture's interest in time; history, stability and permanence of ideas, symbols and traditions inform future generations are creating close ties within a rooted culture (Carrey, 162). On the other hand, space bias refers to a culture's interest in space, areas bound to a culture's innate identity. This identity derives from the discovery and creation of symbolic representations of culture that endure and grow in the minds of people within culture despite vast distances of separation (162). The "bias...
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