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The Impact Of Digital Media Technology On Space-time Pereception

Posted on:2013-09-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D F YuanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2248330371986738Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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L Digital media technology is playing an important role in the social development. Nowadays Space-time perception has been changed by the digital media like cellular phone, computers, digital video, electronic books, electronic commerce, Internet games, interactive media, internet televisions, etc. The changing is so faste that we all are insensible. The question that the changing of Space-time perception is and how does that happen attracted lots of scholar. All of them are interested in the feel of time and space; however, they worked on Spatio-temporal View but not Space-time perception.Thanks to the development of the digital technology, the news agencies all around the world can press news about every country in the world. Nowadays interracial cultural exchange is possible and the speed of the communication is out of our imagination. The important thing will send to every corner in seconds that make the world become "a country", in which has no virtual boundary that’s called cyberspace.The characteristic of spatial and temporal distribution is becoming indistinct, instantaneous spread is happened after the digital media technology. If you have a computer and world wild web. you can know what happened in the other places everywhere and any time. You got the news about the earthquake which happened in Japan last year as quick as the people, who lived in Japan, and you feel terrible when you know the news that the nuclear power plant blowing up. almost you feared as what the people feel in Japan.The impact of digital media technology on Space-time perception is huge. And this topic is cared much in Marshall McLuhan’s theory. In his book named Understanding media----the expend of man. he expressed the topic that the technology has lots of effects on human civilization. He said the all of the technology like cars and roads are expend of man. and the digital technology is the expansion of central nervous system.In this thesis. I want to discuss the issue that the impact of digital media technology on space-time perception. I will analysis what happened after the digital media technology insert into people’s life, so that people will understand the cyberspace and make sure there is no scare like what happened in The Matrix.
Keywords/Search Tags:Digital media technology, Space-time perception, Cyberspace
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