A Model Media Ecologist

Musings on technology and culture by a disciple of Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman and Claude Lévi-Strauss

Monday, December 25, 2006

Television Advertising Teaches Us How to Think (in an Era of Secondary Orality)

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Every television commercial is a lesson in the ways of thought under secondary orality and, as advertising icons spread out to other venues,...
Wednesday, December 20, 2006

From the Kenyon Review: On Steiner's 'New Literacy'

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Lance Strate and his recent book, Echoes and Reflections: On Media Ecology as a Field of Study , get a nice mention from Jerry Harp in the c...
Monday, December 18, 2006

The Rise of Product Placement

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Why has product placement become an attractive alternative to the standard commercial messages which interrupted televised narrations but di...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

My 15 Seconds of (Radio) Fame

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(Updated Below) I just heard on the radio the content of a call I made a few weeks ago to one of the talk show hosts on Air America Radio. T...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

On My Dissertation Title: "Myth as Advertising"

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I chose my dissertation title, Myth as Advertising , quite carefully after considering many alternatives, including Advertising as Myth . I ...

A Model Media Ecologist

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Under the tutelage of professors Neil Postman, Terry Moran and Christine Nystrom , it was the practice in the 1970's at New York Univer...

Claude Lévi-Strauss's Contribution to Media Ecology

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Here is my quick take on Lévi-Strauss's contribution to Media Ecology: His approach to the interpretation of so-called "primitive...
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