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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Marshall McLuhan"”.
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marshall McLuhan and Communication Ethics: The Taming of Americanitis
… practices. As such, this project considers Marshall McLuhan’s Media Ecology to examine the communicative phenomena of Americanitis. Based on affable grounding assumptions as well as calls in recent literature, McLuhan’s work is read through the presently underrepresented Media Ecology …
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"The whole earth as village" : a chronotopic analysis of Marshall McLuhan's "Global Village" and Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner
Marshall McLuhan's "global village", and his theories on communications and technology, in conjunction with Patrick McGoohan's television series The Prisoner (ATV, 1967-1968) are explored in this thesis. The Prisoner, brainchild of McGoohan, is about the abduction and confinement of a British …
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Η επικοινωνία των Μέσων στον Μarsahall McLuhan ως ναρκισσιστική αποθέωση και η υπέρβαση της Ορθόδοξης Επικοινωνιακής Θεολογίας
… Ναρκισσισμό των Μέσων, με αφετηρία το έργο του Marshall McLuhan «Media, οι προεκτάσεις του ανθρώπου». Παρουσιάζονται βιογραφικά στοιχεία για τον McLuhan καθώς και το συνολικό του έργο. Στη συνέχεια, περιγράφονται και επεξηγούνται οι όροι «Νεωτερικότητα» και «Μετανεωτερικότητα» καθώς και το πως …
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Artwitter : the reinterpretation of social networks
… their designs with the media theories from Marshall McLuhan, I develop a method from McLuhan's Laws of Media, called Media Interpretation, to decomposed Ant Farm's design process. The Media Interpretation contains four processes: taking advantage of what the media enhance, rejecting what the …
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The Revolution Will Be Videotaped: Making a Technology of Consciousness in the Long 1960s
… de Chardin referred to as the noosphere and Marshall McLuhan as the global village. Experimental videographers across several fields were also influenced by the psychedelic research of the 1950s and early 1960s, by the development of cybernetics as a science of both social systems and …
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The Triptych Tetrad: Marshall McLuhan's Neo-Medieval Communication Theory
The work of Marshall McLuhan has often been reduced to the form of catchphrases and "McLuhanisms," such as the "global village" and "the medium is the message" in the field of communication. Though these phrases capture an aspect of his thought, the scholarly understanding of McLuhan's vision …
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Digital Storytelling: The Application of Vichian Theory
… accepted by people of all ages and education. Marshall McLuhan, the 20th-century Canadian scholar was an eclectic critic of technology and culture who anticipated the Internet. McLuhan used Vichian theory as the basis for some of his writings on technology. My study synthesizes and makes …
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WWF's Earth Hour Campaign: ‘Global Village' or Eco-Imperialism?
… view of globalisation that celebrates what Marshall McLuhan termed the ‘global village'. While this global ethos might be useful in engaging the publics in collective action, this article argues that the way Earth Hour and similar campaigns actively construct representations of a single …
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The Apocalyptic Visions of J.G. Ballard: Surrealism, World War II, and Modern Technology
… argue that he began a literary conversation with Marshall McLuhan, who, like Ballard, warned about technology’s ability to inflict pain and anxiety. Ballard’s final tetralogy—Cocaine Nights (1996), Super- Cannes (2000), Millennium People (2003), and Kingdom Come (2006)—also appears largely …
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Between Floors: The Ups and Downs of Mediated Narrative
… and installation theorists such as Peter Brooks, Marshall McLuhan, and Nathaniel Stern. This dissertation and to an extent, experiment, uses theory and practice to illuminate narrative using a recombination of existing theory and an original remediation in three distinct forms, to further the …
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IAIN BAXTER& and N.E. THING CO.: A Study in Pop-Inflected Conceptual Art
… and Alan Watts, and the communications theory of Marshall McLuhan—this study describes five underlying principles that inform BAXTER&‘s work individually and in unison. These principles are: his preference for foregrounding the banal; creation of the "infoscape" that merges the natural world and …
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ScreenStage performance: Hybridity, perception and enstrangement
… semiotics and media theories (Shklovsky, 1919; McLuhan, 1964; Todorov, 1977; Auslander, 2008; Pethő, 2018; Cobley, 2021) in a complementary manner. The three main theories of different fields by Alva Noë, Marshall McLuhan and Viktor Shklovsky, used to base the argument, are consistent in terms …
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Hardwiring consumer desire: Publishing and promoting the online technocultural experience : a critical textual analysis of Wired magazine and its advertising, 1993-1996
… articulated by Harold Innis and his successors Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong, and Ronald Deibert. This approach is combined, secondly, with a historical comparative analysis of the American specialist lifestyle magazine as refracted through the work of Harold Abrahamson. Finally, to analyse the …
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Communicating workplace safety and health: Disrupting OSH messaging to embrace diversity via digital media and innovate around the social side of safety
… can deliver important workplace benefits. As Marshall McLuhan first argued 57 years ago, “the medium is the message”, and the ways in which OSH information are communicated are just as important as the information provided. Importantly, the communication of OSH within a workplace, and the …
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‘University Must Be Saved’ Genealogy As A Knowledge Approach.
… Ivan Illich (1971), Edgar Morin (1999), but also Marshall McLuhan (1964) and those researchers that are currently involved in the analysis of the impact of media on the education system (Ben Fry, 2007, I. and M. Toru S. Vijay Kumar, 2008). It is an attempt to genealogically answer the question …
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Discarnation: Expounding on Marshall McLuhan's Critique of Modern Subjectivity
<p>This project presents Marshall McLuhan’s work as an explication of discarnate subjectivity in mediated environments, with special focus on the consequences of technological environments in society. The first and second chapters focus on McLuhan’s ground, sensibilities, and practice to shed light …
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John Cage's HPSCHD
… discovery of the American social philosophy of Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller. Just as Cage used Asian philosophies to bolster his turn to chance composition in the 1950s, Cage appropriated a vocabulary from Thoreau, McLuhan, and Fuller to legitimize his new work with the computer. Cage …