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Leah Johnson Chapters 1-7 Robert Logan first introduces us to the concepts of new media and old media as he defines them clearly and help us make the distinction between the two. The ever changing and evolving medias are a new cultural environment society is consumed in. Time simply helps us loose interest. Old media such as television and radio, etc., was our “new media” of earlier times. We have never seen such technologies, and different medias in the past so this was fascinating and as time went on and these new medias and technologies emerged, old media was no longer of special fascination. Logan states that McLuhan says the user is the content. When It comes to new media I agree with this statement 100%. New media like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumlbr, etc, the users create this world, based off of their own content. Twitter is the best example of this, all of the content floods each users timeline and creates the world of Twitter. But can these users be considered professionals or employees? It seems interesting that each user keeps each of these sites going without any recognition or pay. Do the users care that they are putting in probably about 12 hours a day, on these networks that are going because of their content? I find this to be an interesting topic that should be explored. Maybe if specific users are bringing in enough people they receive a reward. This should be considerable. These chapters gave different additional insights on media ecological approaches and theories from Marshall McLuhan.