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Media has improved over the years becoming an important thing in our lives. Manovich describes how both old and new media are different in some ways. I especially found interesting his explanation on numerical representation. He describes it as “mathematical functions”which makes sense cause computer programs are just a series of zeros and ones. When we download photos we can change the size and angle on it. You can even change certain things or erase something on the picture. These numbers are invisible what we see is a picture. I remember watching a show on T.V and they found a photo which had been changed. Behind the photo was secret information which consisted of numbers. I thought it was cool how they were able to hide this information behind an innocent picture. Your looking at a photo of the beach as they zoom in you see codes which changes the picture entirely.

It is amazing how math is involved in media just to change characterictics of the picture we need math . Even film is broken up into a number of samples as described by Manovich. Math is important even in media we use numbers to create things. Media is so important in our lives what would a world without media be like. It is hard to think about that because we cannot image ourself without this media tool. We rely too much on media so without it we probably have a hard time adjusting to life.