Ideas inspired by Harold Innis Canadian Media Theorist And James Carey

o Sound Recording

o Photography

o Sound Recording o Photography

o Sound Recording o Photography o Video Recording

o Sound Recording o Photography o Video Recording o Archives of All Kinds

o Sound Recording o Photography o Video Recording o Archives of All Kinds o Monuments, Statues, Graves,

o Sound Recording o Photography o Video Recording o Archives of All Kinds o Monuments, Statues, Graves, o Rituals, Ceremonies, Stories

o Sound Recording o Photography o Video Recording o Archives of All Kinds o Monuments, Statues, Graves, o Rituals, Ceremonies, Stories o Ultimately, Recording is an extension of the MEMORY

 Telephone

 Telegraph

 Telephone  Telegraph  Television

 Telephone  Telegraph  Television  Paper messages, , Txt

 Telephone  Telegraph  Television  Paper messages, , Txt  Smoke Signals, Pigeons, Human Messengers

 Telephone  Telegraph  Television  Paper messages, , Txt  Smoke Signals, Pigeons, Human Messengers  Ultimately, transmission is an extension of transportation (the foot)

 Zip a Transmission and Get a Recording  Unzip a Recording and Get a Transmission

A viable culture must balance the need to extend through space with the need to endure in time.

 Innis and Carey suggest that we have invested too much into space- binding and not enough in time- binding media.  What is the consequence?

“Witnesses serve as the surrogate sense- organs of the absent…the means by which experience is supplied to others who lack the original.” (Peters, 709)

 How does the medium create ontological uncertainty?  How does the medium create epistemological uncertainty?  How does the medium create ethical uncertainty?

Ontology deals with questions about what is

When you witness a mediated event, what is it you are seeing?

Epistemology deals with questions about what can be known (and how)

When you witness a mediated event, how do you know what is really happening?

Ethics deals with questions about right conduct

When you witness a mediated event, how should you respond?

Being there: Presence in time and space: Historicity Presence in space but absent in time “Live” broadcast: Presence in time but absent in space Recording: Absent in Time and space

 If our experiences are becoming increasingly mediated, can we deal with the ontological, epistemological, and ethical uncertainties entailed by this kind of witnessing?

 Does “being there” still matter?

 If our experiences are becoming increasingly mediated, can we deal with the ontological, epistemological, and ethical uncertainties entailed by this kind of witnessing?  Does “being there” still matter?  Are there media forms that can create “presence” needed for real participation?