{"id":6295,"date":"2005-04-25T19:02:08","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T19:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/25\/on-channel-two\/"},"modified":"2005-04-25T19:02:08","modified_gmt":"2005-04-25T19:02:08","slug":"on-channel-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/25\/on-channel-two\/","title":{"rendered":"On Channel Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>Until I read<br \/>\n<a  href=\"http:\/\/rhetorica.net\/archives\/003951.html\">Andy Cline&#8217;s<br \/>\nentry<\/a> at Rhetorica.net, I didn&#8217;t even know it was TV Turn-Off week.&nbsp;<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve already soaked up a few minutes of TV today, so I guess I blew that one.&nbsp;<br \/>\nNext year, next year.&nbsp; Plus, with the NBA playoffs, forget it.&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnyway, I&#8217;m much less inspired by a week for this and a week for that than I am<br \/>\nby the grad school mantra: &quot;Get yourself right for next week.&quot;&nbsp; Or<br \/>\nsomething like that.<\/p>\n<p>I read Steve Johnson&#8217;s article&#8211;<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/04\/24\/magazine\/24TV.html?pagewanted=print&#038;position=\">&quot;Watching TV Makes You Smarter&quot;<\/a>&#8211;yesterday.&nbsp; And I&#8217;ve read a few of the entries made<br \/>\nby folks (<a  href=\"http:\/\/chutry.wordherders.net\/archives\/004030.html\">here<\/a><br \/>\nand<br \/>\n<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.stevendkrause.com\/academic\/blog\/2005\/04\/television-study-in-contrasts.html\"><br \/>\nhere<\/a> and <a  href=\"http:\/\/ydog.net\/gm\/archives\/00000369.html\"><br \/>\nhere<\/a>) from the blogroll who&#8217;ve written on the subject.&nbsp; Should be clear<br \/>\nfrom the outset that I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve got anything much to add.&nbsp; But I&#8217;ll<br \/>\ntry. <\/p>\n<p>Johnson&#8217;s article suggests to me the importance of more complicated<br \/>\nunderstandings of cognition&#8211;of thought activity.&nbsp; What happens in the<br \/>\nencounter with a particular interface&#8211;paper or screen?&nbsp; What&#8217;s the<br \/>\nmentation?&nbsp; The mind in action?&nbsp; And how are mediating tools (Werstch,<br \/>\nBruner, others) implicated in the complex neural patterns inside one&#8217;s head, the<br \/>\nfiring of pulse-driven networks, the image vectors figuring some animated<br \/>\ncorrespondence to word, sound, intelligible object.&nbsp; Sure, depending on<br \/>\nwhich examples of television programming we want to invoke as an example, we can<br \/>\nargue that the tube affords us activations more complex than we might&#8217;ve known<br \/>\notherwise.&nbsp; But loopy, fractured narrative structures?&nbsp; Not unique to<br \/>\ntelevision nor to any medium. <\/p>\n<p>I agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/ydog.net\/gm\/\">Jeff<\/a> in his contention that<br \/>\nJohnson&#8217;s article is a solid articulation of the cultural shift instigated by<br \/>\nnew media; a <i>media mind<\/i>&#8211;yup. And yet it&#8217;s not just the media part of the<br \/>\nphrase that seems to be misunderstood, obscured in the school-as-institution&#8217;s<br \/>\ncling to literacy.&nbsp; Mind, too, has been shrugged aside either as a<br \/>\nmystical, speculative science or, in no more hopeful terms, as a universalizing<br \/>\nmonolith misappropriated to the narrow path of biological determinism (I<br \/>\noversimplify, but some version close to this one seems familiar).&nbsp; Three<br \/>\npounds of generic (c&#8217;mon, whose is it?) grey matter and a dissection pan.&nbsp;<br \/>\nSince I&#8217;ve been reading some brain science books this semester, I&#8217;ve been<br \/>\nwondering&#8211;week in, week out&#8211;about how much bearing it has on the work we do in<br \/>\ncomposition, especially when we hinge pedagogies on new media.&nbsp; How much do<br \/>\nwe assume, for example, about how minds work, about how meaning is differently<br \/>\napprehended, differently made?&nbsp; The givens in comprehension? 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