Interview with Carmen Daniela Maier
© Carmen Daniela Maier and Figure/Ground Communication Dr. Maier was interviewed by Judie Cross on March 10th, 2013 Carmen Daniela Maier, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and member of the Knowledge […]
Category Archives: Media studies
Walter J. Ong in the Age of Google, Facebook, and Twitter
Call for Papers/Abstracts An Interdisciplinary Conference on the thought of Walter J. Ong, S.J. Walter Ong was among the foremost theorists of rhetoric and culture in the 20th century. A […]
Interview With Elihu Katz
© Elihu Katz and Figure/Ground Communication Dr. Katz was interviewed by Justin Dowdall on March 25th, 2013 Elihu Katz is an American and Israeli sociologist. He is Distinguished Trustee Professor […]
Interview With Barry Wellman
© Barry Wellman and Figure/Ground Communication Dr. Wellman was interviewed by Andrew Iliadis on October 30th, 2012 Professor Barry Wellman is based at the University of Toronto, he directs NetLab, is […]
Logan, Robert K. ‘McLuhan Extended and the Extended Mind Thesis (EMT)’
Abstract: We develop complementary connections between McLuhan’s media ecology notion of media as ‘extensions of man’ and the Extended Mind Thesis of Andy Clark. Contact: Robert K. Logan logan@physics.utorotno.ca
Facebook Home Propaganda Makes Selfishness Contagious
By Evan Selinger The new ads for Facebook Home are propaganda clips. Transforming vice into virtue, they’re social engineering spectacles that use aesthetic tricks to disguise the profound ethical issues at stake. […]
Logan, Robert K. ‘Understanding Energy Exploitation Media: The Overextensions of Man’
Abstract: We examine humankind’s exploitation of energy as technologies and hence media that McLuhan suggests are “the extensions of man.” We look at the evolution of these technologies of energy exploitation that […]
Logan, Robert K. ‘Ulanowicz’s Process Ecology, McLuhan’s Media Ecology and Kauffman-Logan’s Notion of Biotic Information’
Abstract: Robert Ulanowicz (2009) in A Third Window: Natural Life Beyond Newton and Darwin, has described what he calls “process ecology,” as a way of explaining in a non-reductive manner the origins […]
Video of the Fourth Annual ‘Nietzsche Workshop @ Western’
Video streaming by Ustream Video streaming by Ustream Video streaming by Ustream The fourth annual ‘Nietzsche Workshop @ Western’ (NWW.IV), ‘Cyber-Nietzsche: Tunnels, Tightropes, Net-&-Meshworks’ ◊ hosted by the Center for […]
