"the matrix of a reminiscing cogitation, shuffling and collating ‘things’ stored in a random-access memory scheme"
Lance Strate‘s “The Medium is… (A Pecha Kucha)” You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video I’ve not heard of a pecha kucha before, which seems to be a 6 minute 40 second presentation in which 20 slides are shown, each for 20 seconds.
Mon, November 14 2011 » Marshall McLuhan, Media Ecology, Teaching Resources » 1 Comment
As Computers and Writing 2012 (North Carolina State University, May 17-20) falls within Walter J. Ong’s centenary, I’d like to mark the occasion with a panel along the lines of what I organized for 25th anniversary of Orality & Literacy (Orality and Literacy 2.0 and Orality and Literacy: The Next 25 Years). Only this time, as it’s [...]
Fri, September 16 2011 » Calls for Papers, Computers and Writing, Conferences, Media Ecology, Walter Ong » No Comments
Fordham’s Communications and Media Studies department is holding a McLuhan Centenary Symposium on September 17 that is free and open to the public. An interesting lineup of talks and a screening of the 1961 television program The Gutenberg Galaxy.
Mon, August 29 2011 » Conferences, Marshall McLuhan, Media Ecology » No Comments
As the decision was made to no longer host Notes from the Walter J. Ong Collection on the Saint Louis University Libraries’ servers, I’ve gotten ahold of the files and have now made the blog available on my own account at the link above. Notes from the Walter J. Ong Collection was a commonplace blog [...]
Thu, August 25 2011 » Media Ecology, Walter Ong » No Comments
Summary of some studies on the internet’s affects on memory: A second experiment was aimed at determining whether computer accessibility affects precisely what we remember. “If asked the question whether there are any countries with only one color in their flag, for example,” the researchers wrote, “do we think about flags — or immediately think [...]
Thu, July 21 2011 » Cognitive Studies, Digital Studies/New Media, Media Ecology, Memory » No Comments
WYNC’s “The Medium is the Massage: Celebrating Marshall McLuhan’s Legacy“ The Guardian‘s “The Big Idea Podcast: The Medium Is the Message“ To the Best of Our Knowledge‘s “Marshall McLuhan at 100“ The Globe and Mail‘s “The Return of Marshall McLuhan“
Thu, July 21 2011 » Marshall McLuhan, Media Ecology, Teaching Resources » No Comments
Jonathan Haidt’s Edge talk, “The New Science Of Morality” (link offers transcript, video, and downloadable audio), offers much goodness to mull over. Consider, for instance, his summary of a June 2010 Behavioral and Brain Sciences article by Joe Henrich, Steve Heine and Ara Norenzayan: So, in the article, they start by reviewing all the studies [...]
Fri, April 15 2011 » Cognitive Studies, Media Ecology » No Comments
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Fri, January 28 2011 » Academia, Digital Studies/New Media, Media Ecology, Teaching » No Comments
Put together for his centennial this year, a site containing a large collection of McLuhan videos, Marshall McLuhan Speaks, has been compiled. Unfortunately, the site doesn’t include any information about the sponsors or compilers of the site, but this email message, sent by Michael O’Connor Clarke, indicates that McLuhan’s daughter Stephanie McLuhan helped with the [...]
Thu, January 27 2011 » Marshall McLuhan, Media Ecology, Teaching Resources » No Comments
Rodger Travis of the University of Connecticut has posted a chapter proposal for examining three Bioware MMORPGs from the perspective of oral formulaic theory. I’ll be quite interested to see how this idea takes shape.
Mon, November 8 2010 » Digital Studies/New Media, Gaming, Media Ecology » No Comments
