Reflection written for the primary week of Theories of Media, Design & Technology class

As a communication and promoting scholar previously, I approached the category as an introduction to the world of media and design. I had anticipated to get thrown into the acquainted water. In return, I used to be proven a brand new trajectory — trying into the ideas of design, expertise, and media by the prism of philosophy.

Philosophy will not be straightforward to understand. It represents big unwieldy constructions and has a selected language. Its ideas are troublesome to work with, and so they typically appear incongruous with life.

We don’t discuss philosophy every day. We don’t use the phrase philosophy to explain the method of pondering. It seems that philosophy can solely be utilized to one thing that’s tutorial and revealed moderately than one thing one wrote or stated — one doesn’t maintain the authority to problem.

Yes, an individual can dwell with out philosophy. Philosophy will not be a necessity to get wealthy, discover love, or treatment illnesses. All these issues may be simply solved with out philosophy. However, human life will not be restricted solely to those and comparable points. Fortunately or sadly, an individual remains to be in a position to consider the reality and that means, good and evil.

Philosophy provides a language to explain the unfamiliar. It embodies the experiences of individuals and their thought processes. One will get a language by which one can untangle relationships with nature, materials, and non secular. One will get the bottom to debate unfamiliarity with others.

Despite that, I really feel indifferent from the ideas of philosophy. Philosophy may be distorted and used to manifest values upon the individuals and to justify actions. It has the ability to affect.

I hope that with time and within the period of this course, I’ll discover ways to strategy philosophy otherwise and see it as a device and base to construct my design course of.

The top quality set an excellent begin to the semester and allowed me to achieve an understanding of what to anticipate. The readings went in accord with class supplies, and it was straightforward to comply with the lecture. The materials mentioned — studying methodologies — was acquainted and duplicated data within the programs I took prior, akin to Communication Research and Communication Writing. However, I do consider that studying is a cycle, and one has to assessment data recurrently and apply it.

Reading methods weren’t taught in my elementary faculty or center faculty. I used to be graded on speed-reading — how a lot I can learn per minute. It made me suppose that the sooner you learn, the smarter you’re. It took time to search out studying habits that allowed me to be taught, discover, and navigate the difficult panorama of academia at my very own tempo. But then, I needed to begin it another time — studying in English.

Reading follow as a non-native speaker will not be one thing we frequently focus on. There is a part of translation and tradition that’s added to the duty of studying, which is difficult by itself. Reading is now a puzzle, with a number of layers that one has to decipher. While it’s not a wrestle for me, studying a philosophical piece is a problem. I’m studying another time learn.