Week 1 Two Cultures

 My name is Jared Karros and I am a third year sociology major. Like many other college students, social media is something I spend a lot of time on. Therefore, I wanted to analyze its relevance as a culture of its own. I am taking this class because I hope to learn more about design and media arts. 

There are many different forms of culture across the world. One of which that has become extremely prominent in almost everyone's lives is the culture of social media. There is a very significant connection between social media as well as design media because social media often has graphic designs and other forms of media. We are able to see this in Snow's claim about the two cultures of art and science and how they both appear in social and design media. Design media art serves more as a scientific type culture because of the research that goes into how different designs are used and which work best. Social media on the other hand would serve as a more artistic one because there isn't much research or study. It revolves more around being appealing and getting popular. 

As we discuss the two cultures above, we are also able to bring in a "third culture". The third culture that serves as a medium for the two discussed earlier would be technology. Technology provides a platform for both social and design media cultures. Further connections with the science and art cultures can be made and technology encompasses all. Technology allows for this connection as science enables art and art enables science. As social media continues to blossom and become more prominent, Snow's ideas about the two cultures is still very relevant. As long as social media will continue to exist, the two cultures of science and art will both be very prominent structure points of out. 

 Works Cited: 

Bohm, D. “On Creativity.” Leonardo, vol. 1, no. 2, Apr. 1968, pp. 137–149. 

Kelly, Kevin. “The Third Culture.” Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 13 Feb. 1998, science.sciencemag.org/content/279/5353/992.full.

Snow, Charles Percy. The two cultures and the scientific revolution: The Rede Lecture, 1959. University Press, 1959. 

Vesna, Victoria. "Toward a Third Culture: Being In Between." Leonardo, vol. 34, no. 2, 2001, pp. 121-125.

Williams, Christopher M. “A Dangerous Divide: The New York Academy of Sciences.” Nyas, 24 July 2009, www.nyas.org/ebriefings/a-dangerous-divide/?tab=overview.