Blog Number 1

         Hello! My name is Philip Tsekouras and I am from Thornhill. I am very excited to begin the Radio and Television Arts program at Ryerson and look forward to learning about the different aspects of this field. So let the blog begin!

 

         I really was not sure what to expect when I entered the Digital Media lecture. I was quite ignorant to the meaning of the word. To me, digital media meant media that is made digitally. As in media displayed through televisions and computers. I was unaware that digital media was associated with so many different types of media like text messaging or magazines. 

 

My impressions of digital media definitely changed immediately after the first lecture. Mostly because now I actually understood what digital media was. I felt a lot less overwhelmed knowing the programs I would be working with and what types of projects I would be creating. Upon leaving the digital media lecture, my feeling of confusion for what the program was exactly quickly changed to a feeling of excitement to begin the course.

 

         I think an RTA student should take a course like this because it allows us, the students, to become more familiar with the various types of media there are today. As our world evolves, so do our methods of sending information. This course will allow us to stay up-to-date with those various methods and we will be able to utilize all of these different mediums when we graduate.

 

         McLuhan was definitely right. Although the information we send to each other has stayed relatively the same over the past 50 years, the way in which we send that information has done quite the opposite. There are so many different ways to communicate with each other everyday, and inevitably, the medium  becomes the message, not the message itself.