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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Media Ecology"”.
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The Megaphone of the Soul: Resistance of Fraudulent Technological Idolization by Recognizing the Power of Human Choice in Media Ecology
… humans as social animals has been carried into media ecology scholarship by Arendt, Burke, Ellul, Mumford, Postman, and Ricoeur. Social media scholarship has often focused on the tool and how it affects humanity. However, a phenomenological approach is necessary, as humans communicate with or …
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When Humanity Meets Technology: Contemplating Neil Postman's Critique of Advertising
… Marketing Communication (IMC) in today’s mediated environment. As an essential component of IMC, the history of advertising demonstrates and documents that the medium of communication has an extensive influence on IMC practices. The concern about how communication media affect human …
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marshall McLuhan and Communication Ethics: The Taming of Americanitis
… landscape of modernity. Similarly, contemporary Media Ecology literature suggests that Americanitis continues amidst our current digital moment. Manifest as narcissistically anxious nervous exhaustion, digital Americanitis results due to technological encouragement of existential and …
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Outsourcing Our Memory 2.0: Using Walter Ong's Orality/Literacy Studies to Recognize Technologies Effects on Memory
At the heart of media ecology is the principle that technology not only deeply influences society, but also controls most aspects of daily life. Additionally, media ecology investigates how media and communication processes profoundly affect human perception and understanding. The pervasive role …
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The Map and The Territory: Russian Social Media Networks and Society
This dissertation uses Russian social media as a lens for exploring the historically, culturally, socially and politically situated relationship between individuals and online communication technologies. I propose a framework for comparative international analysis that leverages three …
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YouTube is the New Tube: Identity, Power, and Creator-Consumer Relationships in a New Culture (Cottage) Industry
YouTube is a new kind of media, offering new ways to search for meaning and identity in the digital information age. In this study, I explore how the struggle to establish meaning and identity is played out in this new cultural space, centering on amateur creators as they navigate tensions and test …
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Working-class newspapers, community and consciousness in Chicago, 1880-1930
… they operated. These papers were part of a rich media ecology, including scores of foreign-language, trade and professional dailies, as well as mainstream dailies organized into the Chicago Newspaper Trust.
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From father to feminist : "Call her daddy" and the rhetorical function of imperfect feminism.
… in its continued evolution in the contemporary media environment. Utilizing feminist rhetorical analysis, I explore three related aspects of the podcast: hegemonic trope presentation, parasocial relationship impacts, and feminist apologia rhetoric. Situating these aspects of the podcast within …
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The Grey Fox meets Jumanji : the emergence of the feature-film industry in British Columbia
… of production can be best understood in terms of media globalization, rather than in the more conventional terms of national cinema development. Through an assessment of the history of cinema in British Columbia, the political economy of the North American film industry, provincial film policy and …
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The structural determinants of media contagion
… any one person to another via some set of intermediary ties. Weblogs have recently emerged as a part of our media ecology and incidentally engender this process of media contagion; because weblog authors are tied by social networks of readership, contagious media events happen frequently, and in …
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The Postman Always Rings Twice: Neil Postman's Views on Education are Relevant Again in the 21st Century Classroom
… lens of Neil Postman, a 20<sup>th</sup>century media ecologist whose fears about television may finally be realized with the advent of the personal digital device and its impact on the educational sphere. First the past narratives that guided the American school system will be traced from …
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The World Become Image: Nonrepresentational Discussions of Film and the Natural World
… of the novel, configure the cinema as a media ecology.
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The Triptych Tetrad: Marshall McLuhan's Neo-Medieval Communication Theory
… incomplete, even within the specialized area of Media Ecology, of which McLuhan is recognized as the intellectual father. Throughout his corpus, McLuhan makes reference to the classical and medieval trivium, which was the basis for education throughout Western history until the Renaissance. …
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Towards understanding mobile messaging ecologies : an exploration of the meanings young people attach to instant messaging channels
… instant messaging facilitates this. Theories of media ecologies provide useful ways of explaining media environments. Nonetheless ecologies are usually conceptualised in relation to mass media rather than networked media and tend to assume that ecologies are situated in a particular physical …
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The Visual Novel: Fictional Space and Print After 1900
… a means of adapting to the proliferation of mass media and technology. This project connects a history of the novel (genre) with a history of the book (the genre’s physical form), thereby theorizing and narrating a history of the visual novel. I demonstrate that through fictional space, a critical …
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THE KOREAN WAVE AS A LOCALIZING PROCESS: NATION AS A GLOBAL ACTOR IN CULTURAL PRODUCTION
… and culture. The importance of the national media system was identified in the (re)production of the Korean Wave phenomenon by examining how public broadcasting-centered media ecology has control over the development of the popular music culture within Korean society. The Korean Broadcasting …
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Word and Image: A Theology of Media As Extensions of the Person
I argue that considering media as extensions—the extension language such as used in Marshall McLuhan’s discussion of the relationship of media to persons goes beyond comparing a medium to a tool and ties a medium to its user as an extension of his self—will provide a robust theology of media. The …
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Communication in the Ruins: Walker Percy and the Art of Symbolic Mediation
<p>This dissertation proposes to explore the mediating function of the symbol through the work of Walker Percy. In the first chapter, I provide the necessary background for undertaking this project. First, I situate Percy in his historical moment and review key events in his life that helped to …
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The Role of Rhetoric: Ong’s Ramus Research as a Hermeneutic Opening for Mediated Communication
… and further situates Ong in the field of media ecology. Ong’s conceptions of mediated communication begin to take form in his early-career graduate research on Peter Ramus. While Ong’s scholarship on secondary orality, and orality and literacy generally has an optimistic tone, this project …
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The impact of changing media technology on the practice of journalism
… constitute an examination of the impact of new media technologies (focusing on social media) on the practice of journalism, with an emphasis on integrating empirical and sociological research. The use of a combination of content analysis, interviews and personal reflections and columns by …
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