A Media Ecology Review
@inproceedings{Strate2004AME, title={A Media Ecology Review}, author={Lance Strate}, year={2004} }
1. Introduction 2. McLuhan 3. Innis and American Cultural Studies 4. The Toronto School 5. Ong 6. Orality-Literacy Studies 7. Media History 8. Postman 9. The New York School and Communication Studies 10. Mumford, Technics, and Ecological History 11. Ellul and Technology Studies 12. Formal Roots 13. Conclusion
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Media Ecology: A Complex and Systemic Metadiscipline
- Art
- 2016
Media ecology is not the theoretical stream of communication studies and it is not limited to Marshall McLuhan´s work and thinking; however, we focus on McLuhan’s approach to media ecology for this…
Media ecological orientations to philosophy and philosophical problems
- Philosophy
- 2017
ABSTRACT This introduction to the Media Ecology special issue of the Review of Communication provides a broad overview of the history of media ecology, clarifies its main orientations and key…
Alphabetic print-based literacy, hermeneutic sociality, and philosophic culture
- Art
- 2017
ABSTRACT This essay offers a media ecological orientation to Western philosophy, showing the essential role that alphabetic writing and print play in making philosophy possible. It offers reviews of…
Media Ecology: Exploring the Metaphor to Expand the Theory
- Art
- 2012
This article introduces media ecology and reflects on its potential usefulness for gaining an understanding of the contemporary mutations of the media system. The first section maps the origins of…
The Contribution of Milton Santos Ecosystem Studies Media
- Art
- 2015
The article aims to present possible contributions of the Brazilian geographer Milton Santos ecosystem analysis of the media. The text seeks to dialogue with the tradition known as communication…
La ecología de los medios: metadisciplina compleja y sistémica
- Art
- 2015
The media ecology is not a theoretical stream of communication sciences nor is it limited and exhausted by the work and thinking of Marshall McLuhan. The media ecology is a complex and systemic…
Ecological perspectives and children’s use of the Internet: exploring micro to macro level analysis
- Sociology
- 2015
Age-old debates on children’s encounters with media technologies reveal a long, fractured and contentious tradition within communication and media studies. Despite the fact there have been studies of…
Los ecos de McLuhan: ecología de los medios, semiótica e interfaces
- Art
- 2015
After briefly describing the theories of mass communication, the article focuses on the emergence of two new ways of understanding the media in the 1960s: the semiotics and media ecology. While…
Multiplicities and the Subject: Rethinking a Mix-of-Attributes Approach in the Digital World
- Art
- 2015
It is suggested that it is time for a reevaluation of the mix-of-attributes approach to media effects in the digital age, noting that there is a continued focus on format when studying media content.
Musical Counter-Environments: Media Ecology as Art Criticism
- Art
- 2014
Beginning with an introduction of some of the basic tenets of an intellectual tradition called the media ecology perspective and a description of its general complexion, this article interrogates how…
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