I'd have to admit the whole idea of "cybertime" never occurred to me until I read this article. It makes sense that there would be a "cybertime" as there is a "cyberspace". In the opening of the article we are told that it doesn't take a genius to understand that time and space are interdependent, to which I agree. However, drawing from my love for comic books and science fiction, I couldn't help but think how "cybertime" and cyberspace is our way of bending reality to our whim. I feel as though both, The Varieties of Cyberspace and Cybertime articles go hand and hand. I found cyberspace to be much more complex in comparison to cybertime. In the article, Cybertime, we are given the many functions and facets or what electronic device offer us in regards to time. In the Varieties of Cyberspace, we introduced the levels of cyberspace: ontology, conceptual and perceptual space, and synthesis; all of which feed off of their own theories.
The article, McLuhan and New Media brought me back to Fall Semester 2013's Media Ecology course. Media is plural for the word "medium," and a medium is something like a vehicle or conduit in which information is transmitted. A medium could be as simple as a letter or as complex as a computer. In the world of Marshall McLuhan, a trailblazer of the new media revolution, we are smacked with the notion that technology along with media is constantly changing. This in turn makes it harder for us to understand media completely. Media Ecology is the study of media as an environment, which in turn means how we as humans interact with it. McLuhan, like many likeminded scholars behooves us to look at new media from a different angle as its relation to the Internet/electronic revolution is a product of our cultural and societal progression. McLuhan's "the medium is the messages" sums it up best, media is an extension of ourselves, for the most part media is born from our imagination and discoveries, therefore it is a natural phenomena to be studied.
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