My A-Ha moments from the Podcast and The Medium and Message are the fact that media plays an important role in any field and can be helpful to anyone. This relates to my field of study because if Mechanical Engineer has to draft something in SolidWorks for homework and they don’t know how to do that they can always look it up online and find tutorials on this program.
Historical examples of Mass communication impacted my design field, because when I am looking for something that I need to draft in programs such as SolidWorks, AutoCad, Catia I can look it up on the computer and find pictures of it and how it was made that make it easier to draft this object. One example of this is in the Mechanical Engineering field we needed to find how the leg of a rotating chair fits into the bottom and draft all the dimensions and tolerances of the chair. Before I did this I looked online and found pictures of how the rotating chair was made and after that it was a lot easier for me to draft the chair.
New media technologies have touched my field of study because before this new media was invented mechanical engineers like me had to get drafts and hand print copies for themselves or ask someone else to do it which consumed a lot of time. Nowadays people can use the copying machine or quickly e-mail the files they need to anyone. New media technologies such as the Internet have made it easier for people around the world to look at different engineering designs at any time they want, and do it quickly. Before new media, people had to go and actually personally see the design they liked and that took too much time and money, because the engineering project could be far away. I think new media influenced my field in a positive way because it gave engineers and costumers a faster and easier way to see what they want or find out what they need to know.