Mediated Spaces Group Presentation

The presentation started by clarifying what mediated spaces were, because I am sure that most of us were not completely sure about the entire meaning and function of it. I would assume, before this class, that mediated spaces are online pages creates to create connection between people, and those would be the social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, and so on. They explained that they are not only social media, but every area that create any specific interaction between people, so that would be every single website, and physical space around the world. Examples of those physical spaces are the classroom, theatre, grocery store, and many others. All of those spaces has a purpose and rules to interact with others while in it. Every one of those spaces are organized in a certain way in order to fulfill the purpose of it.

            The group created a very informative and organized presentation, providing a lot of curiosities about their topic and I would say my favorite part was the virtual tour section. There are always new things coming and I had no idea that virtual tour was so easy and popular already. I got very curious about other places, and actually had a virtual tour on a couple of other museums. This made me think of the virtual tours that Google Maps had created, which are basically aerial tours that are interesting and are definitely a very curious mediated space. Another part of their presentation that I really enjoyed was about how each mediated space is organized to such a detail that we are not even aware of it. They talked about how grocery stores are organized, how each section is ordered by importance, the necessary ones at the end, and the expensive ones on the way to the necessary ones. This is a whole process of research of the path of clients, and it was very interesting for me to think and realize all the details that are in a certain order, so it makes the clients consume more products.

            I think the group did a great job with the presentation, it was very informative, and full of details and curiosities, which it obviously makes it much more interesting. I liked the fact that the class was involved with it and we were asked questions along the presentation. They discussed every topic with us, and made sure that we all learn and understand about mediated spaces and what they are.