Marshall McLuhan famously said “the medium is any extension of ourselves,” which brings me to ask, are social media sites an extension of who we are or is it a fabricated persona of who we want to be perceived as through a mediated medium?
“Plato feared that writing would destroy memory,”Carroll (Page 5)
What are your thoughts on this quote, do you believe writing has destroyed our memory? Or do you believe writing is an extension of our memory?
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