The 4 questions to be raised in front of a new tool/technique/heuristic/etc:
(replace /medium/ with /tool/ or whatever)
1- What capabilities does the medium extend? (E)
2- What medium or media do the new medium obsolesce? (O)
3- How might the message of the medium eventually become reversed from its original message? (R)
4- How did things change when the retrieved medium appeared as a new figure in its corresponding ground? (R)
Mnemonic EORR
Michael Bolton pointed out this great definition:
a medium is something that causes change to happen.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
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