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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"McLuhan"”.
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marshall McLuhan and Communication Ethics: The Taming of Americanitis
… 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 scholarly …
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Art, outrage, dialogue: a McLuhan reading of three visual communicative practices in Cape Town public space
… This is done with the use of Marshall McLuhan's (1964) total effect media theory. Although several other prominent South African artists are mentioned in the scope of this research, it is important to note that the focus still pertains to the aforementioned themes of aesthetics, …
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Η επικοινωνία των Μέσων στον Μarsahall McLuhan ως ναρκισσιστική αποθέωση και η υπέρβαση της Ορθόδοξης Επικοινωνιακής Θεολογίας
… 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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"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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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
… 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 connections …
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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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The Apocalyptic Visions of J.G. Ballard: Surrealism, World War II, and Modern Technology
… 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 indebted to …
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George Meredith as a poet and dramatic novelist
The scope and nature of this Thesis excludes at once the possibility of dealing exhaustively with so towering and complex a genius as George Meredith. He is so wholly sui generis that neglect of him involves neglect of nothing else, implies no deficiency of taste, no literary limitation. He cannot …
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Artwitter : the reinterpretation of social networks
… 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 media …
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The Revolution Will Be Videotaped: Making a Technology of Consciousness in the Long 1960s
… 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 interactions …
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WWF's Earth Hour Campaign: ‘Global Village' or Eco-Imperialism?
… 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 global …
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Art as a Generator of New Mental Patterns: From an epistemological perspective of Modern Physics, Neuroscience and the Buddhist system of thought.
… the danger of repetitive and automatic thought. (McLuhan, 1968). To outline this argument, I draw upon notions like Damasio’s “neural patterns”, Chalmer’s “information spaces” and the “ego tunnel model” defined by Metzinger. Attempting to interpret the interdependence between subject and object, …
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ImMApp: An Immersive Database of Sound Art
… This is then extended by media theory (McLuhan, Kittler, Manovich) into a critique of two digital sound art resources (The Australian Sound Design Project (Bandt and Paine (2005) and soundtoys.net Stanza (1998). The divergences between the two forms of information technologies (print vs. …
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Between Floors: The Ups and Downs of Mediated Narrative
… 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 understanding …
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IAIN BAXTER& and N.E. THING CO.: A Study in Pop-Inflected Conceptual Art
… 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 the …
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Écologie poétique-critique de l'économie de la connaissance ou comment inventer une ethnographie littéraire contre-éducative
… de la communication canadienne (Innis, Frye, McLuhan, Grant) pour essayer d’ancrer une double question : comment arriver à être ici et maintenant ? La compression de l’espace-temps universitaire – à l’intérieur et à l’extérieur de la salle de classe – et la spécialisation des ressources …
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Machine Dreams
… with Broadway Boogie Woogie (1943), and Marshal McLuhan in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964). Questions that kept popping up are: Where do these ideas come from? How do we break the tradition of older forms of communication and bridge a gap to newer ones? The various processes in …
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John Cage's HPSCHD
… 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 …
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Digital Echoes of the iGeneration: An Examination of Digital Media Used in 21st Century Education
… and its questionable relations with humankind (McLuhan, 1964, Stiegler, 1998, Weaver, 2009, Lanier, 2010, Hansen, 2004, Berger, 1972, Derrida, 1974, Derrida & Stiegler, 2002). I then move into formulating aesthetic theory (Benjamin, 1935, Brownowski, 1969), image and text relationships …
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