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Thinking through media ecologies

Posted in Cultural politics, tagged , , , , , , , on February 4, 2013 | 1 Comment »

On e²mc we’re thinking through the various meanings of “media ecology.” The first, chronologically, is the medium theory of Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong, and others — sometimes called the Toronto School of communication theory. Neil Postman’s “New York school” can be considered a more critical and pessimistic adjunct to this tradition. As a […]

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more Lessig, Kelly, socialism

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , on June 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Now that I’ve taken the time to read the growing list of responses to Lessig’s post, I have to say that I’m much more impressed with the collective hive mind — the network of respondents he’s grown around himself — than with the Queen Bee (Lessig himself) on this matter. (That metaphor is not very […]

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socialism or not: Lessig responds to Kelly

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , , , , on May 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – that’s […]

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Lessig on the ecology of culture

Posted in Academe, Cultural politics, Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , 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 […]

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