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  Questions for the article “Digital McLuhan”  1. What are the differences between the pre-literate acoustic world and the alphabetical visual world? How does the media of television become a part of the acoustic world? The preliteral world is extremely different from the alphabetical world. The pre-literal world is visualized As one’s own mind for multiple reasons. During this time there were no kinds of mass production which means things were very limited. Only a few people were able to understand these kinds of words. As for the alphabetical Visual world, it is way more interactive because it is what we live in today. Television has become a soul part of the alphabetical acoustic world because it is bringing visual senses and acoustic senses.  2. Why does the alphabet have segregating tendencies? How exactly does the printing press reverse the segregating tendencies? The alphabet unfortunately has many different segregation problems. Proceeding with a print machine whi...

  Week 1 Questions for Media and Digital Technologies   1. What is mediation? How do digital technologies illustrate mediation in modern social, political, and economical life? In short definition mediation is Interaction through media that engages in concrete situations. Nowadays people depend on Media to find out the news which basically means digital technology is our lives because it ruins most of it. Almost every type of communication that isn’t verbal is basically a digital concept.   2. What are “new media” and “old media”? How do they compare with “digital media” and “analog media”? How does the emerging of “new media” transform the society each time in the history? New media is just the way people communicate digitally today. Old Media is described as things like the newspaper, TV, and the radio. Analog media had to do with things like printed paper or magazines and even films. They kind of had a positive and negative conversion from analog media to digital media...