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Misunderstanding media: a blurry "Vision of Students Today" (part one).

Publication: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
Publication Date: 01-APR-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
THE IMAGERY IN A RECENT and very popular YouTube broadcast "A Vision of Students Today" exposes students in a college lecture hall seemingly living in a state of "all-at-oneness" with their media. Repetitive New Age marching music provides the soundtrack for a point-of-view camera that shakily glides along the stairs and chairs. Superimposed over this appears a 1967 quote attributed to Marshall McLuhan: "Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th Century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is searce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns, subjects, and schedules."

This fades to a wall that reveals the graffiti "If these walls could talk ......

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