How do different Media influence human knowledge and behavior?
Music subscription services (Spotify, Melon, Apple Music, ...)
Music is everywhere: when we study, rest, jog, etc
Means of listening to music: Bluetooth earphones. (Noise cancelling)
Personalized suggestions (Playlist constructed based on individual’s own music preference)
Explore music from different countries/ music in different languages
Share playlists with other people
Music as social media (seeing what others are listening to)
Both free and paid services
GPS to find exact location
Virtual Maps that are updated regularly (stores, restaurants, etc…)
Gives detailed directions to arrive at a destination, including transportation routes and time (for walking, biking, car, public transport, etc)
3D and 2D
Sending locations, sharing locations
Seeing friend’s locations
Do not need to know specific address of places
How did you listen to music when you were young?
CDs and cassette tapes
Radio, certain programs (classic program, pop program)
Portable CD player, LP
Had to physically go to buy cassette tapes, CD and LP
What was your way of making a playlist for your favorite songs?
핫뮤직 Hot music (music magazine) - subscriptions to these magazines
Recorded on cassette tapes while listening to the radio (was less sensitive about copyright)
When did you listen to music?
Before sleeping, relaxing
With friends while playing
While driving
Studying
Walkman, wire earphones (no bluetooth earphones, bad quality sound))
How we interact with this medium
How we interact with this medium
How people interacted with these media in the past
How did you interact with maps when you were young?
Physical maps (all the time)
Map Book (different books for different areas)
Knowing how to read maps were are essential skill
How did you navigate your way to unfamiliar places?
100% reliance on map book for directions
Asking other people
Everything was in the form of books for the maps
Different types of map books (road map, tourist map)
How did you know transportation routes and how long it takes to get somewhere?
Books
No accurate information about traffic congestion or time it takes
memorize certain bus/subway routes