• Memory, Emotion, Music & Nostalgia
    Imagine you're sitting at home watching television after a long day at work or taking care of the kids. You You are enjoying your favorite crime drama, basking in the realization that someone else's life truly is worse than your own. As the mirror neurons in your brain fire in the escapism of the rescue fantasy that the detective story line triggers - after all, in a world of terrorism and orange alerts, don't we all want to be a little safer? - your experience is suddenly interrupted by a commercial break featuring an ad for a chocolate brand. And ...
  • The Ultimate Screen
    We live in a world that is defined by the screens we watch or interact with. But unless you are using one to read this article, I'd like to ask you to put down your smartphone, turn off your iPad or simply turn away from your PC or television set and dwell on this remarkable fact: It has only been a little over 100 years since humans first began looking at screens. In evolutionary terms, that's barely the blink of an eye.
  • A Brief History of Our Brains and Screens
    A screen is defined as a surface where pictures can be projected for viewing. This term is not just related to media, it defines it; the screen is the membrane that "mediates" or stands between, an image and the individual viewing it. What happens without a literal screen? That image simply pipes directly into our mind's eye so that we can "see" it in the same way we "see" a dream.
  • This is Your Brain on Screens Revisited
    "I am writing a story about how our brains perceive and process content across various media screens and I can't help thinking about what my brain is doing at this very moment, even as the words I write appear on the screen of my computer. Or, for that matter, what your brain will do when you read them in this magazine or on some of the screens this story will eventually appear on."
  • DOA Q+A: Thomas Edison
    Without the contributions of Thomas Alva Edison, it's been said, we'd all still be in the dark. America's inventor-philosopher lit the way into the 20th Century, contributing so much to the framework of technological innovation that has brought us blazing into the 21st, up to and including, if not outright inventing electronic, screen-based media.
  • Post Exit Interview: Dale Herigstad
    In the year since Dale Herigstad guest-edited MEDIA, a lot has changed. Apple's iPad, which was just then being introduced to the marketplace, has spawned a revolution in tablet computing and content publishing, too. And Herigstad has moved from being chief creative officer of Schematic to CCO of Possible Worldwide, a new umbrella organization within parent WPP, which combined Schematic with its other best-in-breed interactive and design shops.
  • Space Race
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