{"id":6485,"date":"2013-02-04T10:46:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T15:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=6485"},"modified":"2021-06-10T09:43:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T14:43:14","slug":"thinking-through-media-ecologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2013\/02\/04\/thinking-through-media-ecologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking through media ecologies"},"content":{"rendered":"

On e\u00b2mc<\/a> we’re thinking through the various meanings of “media ecology.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

As a second<\/a> tradition I’ve lumped together the so-called “cultural environmentalism” of public domain defenders like James Boyle and Lawrence Lessig — which embraces the open-source, open-access, and “free culture” movements — with the “mental environmentalism” of culture jammers like Adbusters<\/em>. The first is a movement led by legal theorists engaged in internet, digital media, and intellectual property debates. The second comes out of a left-wing critical theory tradition, with one foot in the neo-Marxist Frankfurt School and a second in the more anarchist-leaning Situationist milieu.<\/p>\n

The third strand we’ll be exploring is the more recent revival of ideas of media ecology — the plural “media ecologies” is preferred here — by theorists like Matt Fuller, Mark Hansen, and Jussi Parikka. Their work is indebted to the ones mentioned above, but also strongly rooted in the (post-)poststructuralist “new materialisms” of philosophers like Deleuze and Guattari, among others.<\/p>\n

Join us there<\/a> for links to readings and videos, as well as discussion and debate (which anyone is welcome to participate in).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On e\u00b2mc 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. 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