http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8muMo0fw_M&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 The death of Michael Jackson has prompted eco-bloggers to take another look at Jackson’s 1995 “Earth Song“, which some consider the most popular environmentally themed song ever produced. The song remains Jackson’s biggest seller in the U.K, having sold over a million copies there — more than either “Thriller” or “Billie Jean” — but […]
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earth songs: Michael Jackson’s cultural ecologies
Posted in Eco-culture, Music & soundscape, tagged ecocriticism, ecology of culture, ecomedia, music on June 30, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Lessig on the ecology of culture
Posted in Academe, Cultural politics, Eco-culture, tagged Creative Commons, cultural environmentalism, ecology of culture, ecomedia, Lessig, media ecology on April 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to Mediacology for sharing this presentation on “Green Culture” by Lawrence Lessig from the recent Green Festival in Seattle. Lessig is the guru of the creative commons movement, and his talk, on what he calls “cultural environmentalism,” is really on media ecology, i.e. the “ecology” of cultural production and creativity, and especially on the […]