メディア人間論の構図(2) : 道具とメディア人間<1>

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After Mcluhan, M. (1964) had characterized media as the extensions of man, many authorities had been raising the issue of the media and its problems in proportion to rapid development of informatization of the world. So, in these days, most drastic changes of the way of understanding mankind had appeared. One of the most deeply interesting professional views is the mankind is media. The aim of this paper is to trace and to draw a rough sketch of the evolution of theories about mankind as media. The writer reviewed and commented the theory of the instrumental method in psychology proposed by L.S.Vygotsky in the 1930, because Vygotsky was The first psychlogist who had pointed that the mind is constructed of tools (technical tools and psychological tools) in the world. Examples showed by Vygotsky for psychological tools are as follows. : language, different forms of numeration and counting, mnemotechnic techniques, algebraic symbolism, works of art writing, schemes, diagrams, maps, blueprints, all sorts of conventional signs, etc.
2004-03-31