2 responses to “How have new places and knowledge historically been made familiar through using systems society understands and how has this continued today?”
Lauren Hart
New places become familiar as we explore them. As we discover new bars, galleries, towns, cities or even countries, the more time we spend their searching out their fascinating hidden secrets the more familiar and comfortable they become. Society familiarises itself with new places and knowledge by people reporting and documenting their journeys and experience. Modern society documents new places, such as holidays not just by taking pictures and sending postcards, but through social media, such as loading pictures taken on a mobile phone to Facebook and Twitter. This allows their friends and family to feel as if they are part of their journey or holiday as they see the same things as the individual often in real time.
Caroline George
People often try to make sense of new things by relating them to something they already understand. On the most basic level, we can see George Stubbs doing this in his paintings of a dingo (which looks just like a fox) and his kangaroo (which many visitors say resembles a mouse or hare)! Stubbs is trying to make sense of the information he is receiving about these new, strange animals which he has never seen, by relating it to animals already familiar to him.
This is just one example of a very human habit, which is an understandable way of trying to make sense of the world around us and new things we encounter. When looking at something new we will always look for similarities with the familiar. However, we must always be careful to ask what is different as well as what is the same.
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2 responses to “How have new places and knowledge historically been made familiar through using systems society understands and how has this continued today?”
New places become familiar as we explore them. As we discover new bars, galleries, towns, cities or even countries, the more time we spend their searching out their fascinating hidden secrets the more familiar and comfortable they become. Society familiarises itself with new places and knowledge by people reporting and documenting their journeys and experience. Modern society documents new places, such as holidays not just by taking pictures and sending postcards, but through social media, such as loading pictures taken on a mobile phone to Facebook and Twitter. This allows their friends and family to feel as if they are part of their journey or holiday as they see the same things as the individual often in real time.
People often try to make sense of new things by relating them to something they already understand. On the most basic level, we can see George Stubbs doing this in his paintings of a dingo (which looks just like a fox) and his kangaroo (which many visitors say resembles a mouse or hare)! Stubbs is trying to make sense of the information he is receiving about these new, strange animals which he has never seen, by relating it to animals already familiar to him.
This is just one example of a very human habit, which is an understandable way of trying to make sense of the world around us and new things we encounter. When looking at something new we will always look for similarities with the familiar. However, we must always be careful to ask what is different as well as what is the same.