1. Ideas inspired by Harold Innis Canadian Media Theorist And James Carey

6. o Sound Recording

7. o Photography

8. o Sound Recording o Photography

9. o Sound Recording o Photography o Video Recording

10. o Sound Recording o Photography o Video Recording o Archives of All Kinds

11. o Sound Recording o Photography o Video Recording o Archives of All Kinds o Monuments, Statues, Graves,

12. o Sound Recording o Photography o Video Recording o Archives of All Kinds o Monuments, Statues, Graves, o Rituals, Ceremonies, Stories

13. o Sound Recording o Photography o Video Recording o Archives of All Kinds o Monuments, Statues, Graves, o Rituals, Ceremonies, Stories o Ultimately, Recording is an extension of the MEMORY

15.  Telephone

16.  Telegraph

17.  Telephone  Telegraph  Television

18.  Telephone  Telegraph  Television  Paper messages, Email, Txt

19.  Telephone  Telegraph  Television  Paper messages, Email, Txt  Smoke Signals, Pigeons, Human Messengers

20.  Telephone  Telegraph  Television  Paper messages, Email, Txt  Smoke Signals, Pigeons, Human Messengers  Ultimately, transmission is an extension of transportation (the foot)

21.  Zip a Transmission and Get a Recording  Unzip a Recording and Get a Transmission

22. A viable culture must balance the need to extend through space with the need to endure in time.

23.  Innis and Carey suggest that we have invested too much into space- binding and not enough in time- binding media.  What is the consequence?

25. “Witnesses serve as the surrogate sense- organs of the absent…the means by which experience is supplied to others who lack the original.” (Peters, 709)

26.  How does the medium create ontological uncertainty?  How does the medium create epistemological uncertainty?  How does the medium create ethical uncertainty?

27. Ontology deals with questions about what is

28. When you witness a mediated event, what is it you are seeing?

29. Epistemology deals with questions about what can be known (and how)

30. When you witness a mediated event, how do you know what is really happening?

31. Ethics deals with questions about right conduct

32. When you witness a mediated event, how should you respond?

33. Being there: Presence in time and space: Historicity Presence in space but absent in time “Live” broadcast: Presence in time but absent in space Recording: Absent in Time and space

34.  If our experiences are becoming increasingly mediated, can we deal with the ontological, epistemological, and ethical uncertainties entailed by this kind of witnessing?

35.  Does “being there” still matter?

36.  If our experiences are becoming increasingly mediated, can we deal with the ontological, epistemological, and ethical uncertainties entailed by this kind of witnessing?  Does “being there” still matter?  Are there media forms that can create “presence” needed for real participation?