Article ID: CBB001201747

Media and Cognition: The Relationship between Thought Structures and Media Structures (2013)

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While throughout history, knowledge and information have been mostly bound in language and text, new twenty-first-century media increasingly tend to break with this tradition of linear sequentiality. This paper will present an account of how this development may be explained by a relationship between the use of digital technologies on the one hand, and the (human) user's cognitive processes on the other. This will be done by, first, outlining two existing conceptions of human cognition and, subsequently, by confronting these with observations in the field of philosophy of media, most prominently the position of Marshall McLuhan.

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Authors & Contributors
Pao, Lea
Badia, Antonio
Hayot, Eric
Sayers, Jentery
Rocker, Ingeborg M.
Kouper, Inna
Concepts
Information technology
Information science
Information theory
Computers and computing
Methods of communication; media
Communications, digital
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Germany
Institutions
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Universität Stuttgart
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