read the article http://mysql.muhlenberg.edu/moodle/pluginfile.php/80/mod_resource/content/4/SILVERSTONE%20-%20The%20texture%20of%20experience.pdf and answer these questions (1) What are some of the reasons why we should study forms of media, according to Silverstone? (2) What might Silverstone mean when he talks about media as part of our "texture of experience"? (This is a key term) (3) Silverstone notes that the starting point for an analysis of media is experience. What do you think he means by this? also see the first 45 mins of this video https://video.muhlenberg.edu/media/Digital_Nation/1_elr5nvft and answer these questions 1. Frontline correspondents Rachel Dretzin and Douglas Rushkoff begin the investigation of the role of digital technologies in our lives. How is their approach to this issue similar to the one that Silverstone outlines in The Texture of Experience? 2. Given what you have seen in this video selection, what are three types of issues or questions we might ask about the role of digital technologies in our lives? (Give a brief description below) (1) (2) (3) 3. Silverstone argues that media experiences are real, tangible, physical, and observable. What types of real or tangible media experiences do you see in this video selection? What types of social frameworks (to use Silverstones language) gives these experiences meaning?

read the article

http://mysql.muhlenberg.edu/moodle/pluginfile.php/80/mod_resource/content/4/SILVERSTONE%20-%20The%20texture%20of%20experience.pdf

and answer these questions

(1) What are some of the reasons why we should study forms of media, according to Silverstone?

(2) What might Silverstone mean when he talks about media as part of our "texture of experience"? (This is a key term)

(3) Silverstone notes that the starting point for an analysis of media is experience. What do you think he means by this?


also see the first 45 mins of this video
https://video.muhlenberg.edu/media/Digital_Nation/1_elr5nvft

and answer these questions

1. Frontline correspondents Rachel Dretzin and Douglas Rushkoff begin the investigation of the role of digital technologies in our lives. How is their approach to this issue similar to the one that Silverstone outlines in The Texture of Experience?




2. Given what you have seen in this video selection, what are three types of issues or questions we might ask about the role of digital technologies in our lives? (Give a brief description below)

(1)




(2)



(3)



3. Silverstone argues that media experiences are real, tangible, physical, and observable. What types of real or tangible media experiences do you see in this video selection? What types of social frameworks (to use Silverstones language) gives these experiences meaning?