While reading Media Convergence something that really caught my attention was the “Black Box Fallacy” which is a concept by Jenkins in which he states that while digital media is converging the physical forms of the media are separating, but i would say that his concept is wrong because there are already devices out today that combine movies,tv,music,games and etc in one physical hardware device. Some examples of such a device is the Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and other ones that don’t offer as much but still offer a great deal of media in a small device Google Chromecast and Roku. Another Part of the first chapter of Media Convergence, was when they quoted Howard Rheingold where he said “The computer and the internet were designed, but the ways people used them were not designed into either technology, nor were the most world-shifting uses of these tools anticipated by their designers or vendors. …“. This made think back to the early stages of the internet on how it was originally designed during war time to send encrypted information amongst themselves without the enemy deciphering the messages. Then they mentioned how SMS texting was just a way for phone companies to alert users of a voicemail later transformed into something for the public just like the computer. This made me open up my mind to thinking differently, in that the public are truly the ones that have the power on the changes that technological advances makes even if it wasn’t originally meant for the public.
The article written by Sean Poynton Brna makes a very good argument on why I should buy Vinyls. Although he wasn’t trying to change anyones mind to not use mp3’s and CD’s, but instead was just simply trying to make people more aware of the things they cant hear originally on mp3’s and CD’s due to the compression they do to the sound. He made me curious and want to experience the rest the frequencies that we cant hear and I found it very interesting how something that isn’t in the range of human hearing can still stimulate our brains whether it be on a sub-conscious level or not. So Ill have to make a trip and get me a vinyl this weekend.
The article “Vinyl Vs CD/Mp3: Insights into Music Formats & the Metaphysics of Our Music” written by Sean Poynton Brna does still seem like it wants to nudge you in a certain direction. I say this only because he gives way more cons for the mp3 format. He only briefly mentions a major flaw of vinyl records when he states “The sound can be altered by repeated playback”. For an article about preserving sound to have something alter it seems kind of major. He does go on to mention the best way to actually listen to music is live, so maybe nothing can really preserve sound the way that it was meant to be heard.