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New Media and Culture (Approaches to New Media (Kranzberg's First Law…

- - - - "Does the Internet Make You Smarter?'
        
        "The Internet does indeed make us smarter because it "restores reading and writing as central activities in our culture." (par.13).
    - - "Does the Internet Make You Dumber?"
        
        "The Internet grants us easy access to unprecedented amounts of information. But... [it] is also turning us into scattered superficial thinkers." (par. 1).
    - - The Internet Isn't making us Dumber, Its Making Us More "Mega-Ignorant"
        
        "The greatest risk isn't that the Internet is making us less informed or even misinformed. It's that it's making us meta-ignorant--less cognizant of what we know" (par.25).
- - - - Connected, but Alone by Sherry Turkle talks about how people are not having their full attention to what's important instead of being distracted by their cell phones.
- - - - There is no new media without old media.
        
        The Medium is the Message by Marshall McLuhan
    - - New Media evolves and morphs continuously