Everyday I listen to music while I do my schoolwork. What I never thought about was how I can listen to music and still really focus on my task. During the lecture on binary models I learned about hot and cool mediums. Music is a cool medium. This means that you don't have to fully engage with it when listening to it. Other things, like books are hot mediums, meaning you have to give it your full attention.
Another binary model is information and entertainment. Information's job is to tell us things while entertainment is not meant to inform. But one thing that is happening is those two are combining and forming infotainment. One example of infotainment is The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. It is meant to inform you about the current events, but also entertain you. This is due to conglomeration. When one company owns a bunch of smaller companies, it's called conglomeration. This is leading to the merging of this binary model. This can be related to my life because my parents watch NBC news shows, which has no entertainment factor, but also shows like the Colbert Report that have the comedy incooperated into the news.
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