How do different Media influence human knowledge and behavior?

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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

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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