Neil Postman is one of the primary reasons I decided to leave Milwaukee in 2001 and move to New York City to pursue my graduate education. While searching for schools, I had discovered of the department Postman founded at NYU,…
Tag: Media Ecology
Even in the Situation Room, the Medium is the Message
Buried within this NY Times post about how some Clinton administration verterans on Obama's transition team are surprised at some of the changes within the White House is an interesting discussion about how the reliance on real-time video links between…
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Neil Postman: Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change
Blogging has been light lately as I'm visiting family over the holiday break. Today, however, I came across one of my favorite essays by the late Neil Postman, cultural critic and founder of my PhD-granting department at NYU, and felt…
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So, what exactly is Media Ecology? (video)
A video honoring the 5th Anniversary of the Media Ecology Association has been posted to YouTube, featuring choice clips of (roughly in order of appearance) Camile Paglila, Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman (including his famous stint on Comedy Central's "Daily Show"),…
Media Ecology & Values in Design: A Combined Approach to Understanding the Biases of Media Technology
I will presenting my paper "Media Ecology & Values in Design: A Combined Approach to Understanding the Biases of Media Technology" at the 6th Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association at Fordham University today. The abstract:In recent years, a…
Why not to bring up McLuhan at parties
Source: Educational Technology, January 15, 1976. Vol. VII, Number 1. Back Cover (Thanks to Richard Graham)
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