In this class we talked about the book The Shallows and we focused mostly on the concept of the “medium is the message”.  From what I understand this means that what is most important is the message. If I send a text the important part is the message. In the sense of a computer the important part is what I’m looking up… right?

Another thing we talked about is the concept of reading to yourself. Which pretty much is like reading to another version of yourself. My teacher made a point to ask whether this is weird. To me I think of thinking to yourself or even thinking out loud. I mean you look like a weirdo when you think out loud (or so I’ve been told) so how is reading to yourself weird?

Finally we also talked about points of views. In movies (the old-time ones) first show one part of the movie from one point of view before switching it to show what the other person is experiencing at the same time. Movies now show the point of view of everybody! In the movie we saw today we were a solider, a nazi, a fish, a ghost…etc. long story short we were many things within the movie  which just seems to externalize the concept of point of views. Really we get different points of view in books we read but as my teacher said we only internalize that concept, much different from the movie where we switch pov in a matter of seconds.

-Andrea Moye