How Media Technology Has Shaped the Way We Experience Culture

The story of media is the story of mankind extending his reach through technology. The invention of the printing press has allowed us to easily fix knowledge in a format that can be exchanged, shared, and sent far away. Photography allows us to take a moment in time and space, capture it and store it. And, the digital era has seen us take information, break it into pieces of data, and then reassemble that data into new forms of knowledge. With each stage of increasing technical complexity, the relationship between media and culture becomes more complicated, reflecting the role that technology plays in shaping our experience of knowledge, information, and/or data.