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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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62 Citations

On the Roots of Media Ecology: A Micro-History and Philosophical Clarification

This paper provides a brief review of media ecology. It is partly a micro-history of the tradition, and partly a philosophical clarification of how and why “systems-theory orientations,” literacy…

Media Ecology: A Complex and Systemic Metadiscipline

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
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