Lab3

=== In Understanding Media: the extension of men, Marshall McLuhan compares the media to the light bulb. He used it to exemplify the effects of hot and cold media. The different levels in media were set based on the audience’s participation. Hot medium requires less participation from audience in present. Cold media requires a lot of participation from audience. Comic books, for example, are a cool medium. Information are simplified and presented in short text and pictures. It is easy for audience to interpret. There are meanings to each picture in the comic book. ===

=== I agree with Marshall McLuhan that comics are an extension of photographic media. Each comic strip has a setting, hypothesis, and meaning in it. The pictures make an impact to the audience. A message is given by body language and facial gestures. This is the goal authors of comic books want to achieve. Similar to inventions of photographs, the artist wants to record a scene that they think is significant. However, photographs comprehensively reflect scenes in reality, while pictures in comic books are mostly non- fiction. The major difference in comic books was that there is a wide range in time. The contents in comic books are mostly off scope. Each story can be told in different eras. It is important that the story in the comic books flows so that audience has a realization. Audience will have different interpretations after revising the stories in comic books. ===