Media Is An Extension Of Our Central Nervous System

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Media Is An Extension Of Our Central Nervous
System
By Jason Graham, Amrith Weerasekera, Daniel
Rust, Madeleine Richter, Aneston
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Contents

• What is Media?
• Senses of the central nervous system that relate
  to certain types of media
• 
  Thought
• 
  Hearing
• Sight
• Conclusion
• Bibliography Sources
• Contacts

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What is Media
Messages that are distributed through the
technologies, principally text in books, study
guides and computer networks sound in
audio-tapes and broadcast pictures in
video-tapes and broadcast text, sound and/or
pictures in a teleconference
http//www1.worldbank.org/disted/glossary.html
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The following are some of the senses of the
central nervous system that relate to certain
types of media

• Thought
• Hearing
• Sight

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• Thought
• Hearing
• Sight
• Speech
• Touch
• Taste

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Thought
Most of the media stimulates our brain in some
way. It can make you feel excited, sad, angry,
sympathetic etc. Some of these forms of media are
movies, posters, TV and music. E.g. a scary film
makes you scared.
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Sight
TV as a media has become an essential part of our
daily lives. For example, watching your favourite
shows as well as being informed through 24 hour
news bulletins. Everyday you encounter
different types of media on your way to school,
play etc. Such as posters, billboards and
hoardings as well as digital images. For example,
browsing your favourite internet sites as well as
emailing your mates.
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Hearing
Most media relies on sound to enhance their
message. This is especially true in the case of
radio broadcasting. Through sound certain
situations can be explained more effectively.
Radios rely on different sounds to advertise a
product as well as attracting people to their
station. For example, if you were advertising a
restaurant you would use sounds such as, a bottle
of wine opening. A younger audience would prefer
to hear a voice of youth making it easier to
relate to the presenter.
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Conclusion
This presentation has shown how particular types
of media can stimulate all our senses. Media has
been integrated into our daily lives. It has come
a long way from its inception of one way
communication to us being interactively involved.
Such as being able pause live TV or casting a
vote by texting using your mobile phone. The
internet being the most significant form of media
indulging all our senses. Media has become an
extension of our central Nervous System or an
extension of ourselves
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Bibliography Sources

• Search engines used
• http//www.google.com
• http//www.yahoo.com
• www.aj.com
• Images
• http//www.gettyimages.com
• Images have been edited using Photoshop

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Contacts

• If you want to contact us or need more
  information
• Please Contact
• Jason Graham jasonag2000_at_hotmail.co
  m
• Amrith Weerasekera amrith_w_at_hotmail.com
• Daniel Rust
  rock_n_roll_star_at_msn.com
• Madeleine Richter madi1402_at_yahoo.com
• Aniston
  stanyanna_at_yahoo.ca
• Useful Links
• http//www.mith.umd.edu/outreach/digitaldirections
  /students/annie/mcluhan.html
• http//www.labyrinth.net.au/saul/essays/mcluhen.h
  tml
• http//www.geneseo.edu/bicket/panop/topmcluh.htm
• http//www.u.arizona.edu/gmc/response2.htm