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 Ecology
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 […]
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
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 […]
Interview with Dr. Valerie Peterson
© Valerie Peterson and Figure/Ground Communication Dr. Peterson was interviewed by Mridula A Mascarenhas on April 8th, 2013 Dr. Peterson teaches courses in visual communication, communication perspectives, critical interpretation, basic concepts of communication, […]
Media Ecology Unplugged
The Fourteenth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association Extended Call for Papers June 20–23, 2013 Grand Valley State University Grand Rapids, Michigan Extended Submission Deadline: February 15, 2013 Featured […]
