{"id":415,"date":"2020-10-07T13:07:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T18:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalhistorylab.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2020-10-07T13:19:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T18:19:11","slug":"filming-the-past-midpoint-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalhistorylab.com\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Filming the Past Midpoint Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finish reading pages 1-45 and 62-68 of Marshall McLuhan\u2019s <em>Understanding Media<\/em>. This was originally published in 1964. What has changed and what has remained similar about media since it was published over half a century ago? How do the newer mediums through which we consume film, video, and text change or extend the insights of this book? Write up a short essay (500-600 words) comparing or contrasting McLuhan\u2019s arguments about media with something that we have watched in class and share it by posting a comment below (your comment will not be visible until I approve it&#8211;if you don&#8217;t want it to be public, just include a note to that effect at the top or bottom of your essay).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Please leave an <strong>extra line of space<\/strong> (hit enter twice) between each of your paragraphs before you copy and paste your text into a comment to post it here. The comment system strips out indents, so if you don&#8217;t leave extra space all of your paragraphs will run together in one big block. Also, you don&#8217;t need to use your real name for this assignment&#8211;choose any handle you like. I will identify you by the IIT email address you enter (which will only be visible to me, not publicly).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This assignment is <strong>due October 19 by 11:00pm<\/strong>. Given the pandemic and continued uncertainties we\u2019re all dealing I realize you may have unexpected setbacks. If you have trouble turning it in by this deadline, send me an email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finish reading pages 1-45 and 62-68 of Marshall McLuhan\u2019s Understanding Media. This was originally published in 1964. What has changed and what has remained similar about media since it was published over half a century ago? How do the newer mediums through which we consume film, video, and text change or extend the insights of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,6],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-classassignment","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digitalhistorylab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_6663-e1602094678494.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistorylab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistorylab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistorylab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistorylab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistorylab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistorylab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistorylab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistorylab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistorylab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistorylab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistorylab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}