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	What is Media Ecology? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Media ecology is the Toronto School, and the New York School.
		Media ecologists know, generally, what it is they are interested in—the interactions of communications media, technology, technique, and processes with human feeling, thought, value, and behavior—and they know, too, the kinds of questions about those interactions they are concerned to ask.
		Media ecology is the study of media as environments.
	www.media-ecology.org /mecology (678 words)

	Robert Gilman - The Ecology Of Media
		In contrast, media communications are directed at an "audience," an abstract group of receivers, and the relationship between the crafter of the communication and the receivers is asymmetrical and frequently not very interactive.
		Their effect has been to expand the diversity of media and to make it much cheaper to be a producer of even quite sophisticated media.
		In other parts of the world the effect of the mass media was even starker, for it enabled governments to centralize and control essentially all their media.
	www.context.org /ICLIB/IC23/Gilman.htm (1099 words)

	Media ecology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Media ecology is an interdisciplinary field of media theory involving the study of media environments.
		According to the Media Ecology Association [1], media ecology can be defined as "the study of media environments, the idea that technology and techniques, modes of information and codes of communication play a leading role in human affairs."
		Along with McLuhan and Postman, media ecology draws from the work of Harold Innis, Walter Ong, Lewis Mumford, Jacques Ellul, Eric Havelock, Susanne Langer, Erving Goffman, Edward T. Hall, George Herbert Mead, Margaret Mead, and Gregory Bateson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Media_ecology (373 words)

	Media Ecology
		Media Ecology began not as an ideology but as an approach, an exploration into the uncharted environments of the various media of communication that constitute so large a part of our world.
		Media Ecology tries to find out what roles media invite us to play, how media structure what we are seeing, how media prompt us to feel and act as we do.
		An examination of the various media through which people have attempted to communicate their ideas and emotions; focus on the electronic media of the 20th century as they affect our perceptions of reality and interactions with others.
	steinhardt.nyu.edu /dcc/masters/Media_Ecology.php (1416 words)

	Media Ecology
		The construction, "media ecology," as a metaphor that resides at the intersection of new media studies and ecocriticism, demonstrates an important but often overlooked point: that one cannot talk about “nature” and “media” as though they are distinct terms or distinct areas of inquiry.
		Although frequent references to a new "media ecology" among literary, media, and cultural critics would suggest a conceptual link between these two terms, considerations of their relatedness have generally fallen short.
		Rather, "media ecology" has become a kind of intellectual dumping ground for under-theorized responses that downplay or even ignore outright the interdependence of media technologies and material—that is, natural—resources.
	www.centenary.edu /etc/media (213 words)

	KLONARIS/THOMADAKI - Media Ecology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Ecology deals with the organisation of living matter; originally it is a "biology of nature", therefore related to the organic, whereas audio-visual technologies are inorganic, in particular electronic and information technologies.
		Introduced by Ernst Haeckel in 1866 the term ecology was meant to define the science which studies the relationships between organisms and their environment.
		The alternative of a media ecology which we propose attempts to value and defend the vast variety of technological phenomena which energize the field of the arts in the industrial and post industrial era.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /astarti/60eco.htm (967 words)

	Media Ecology and (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The result is that language is the centerpiece of Postman=s theory of media ecology, as is education, since print literacy is the primary medium of education and all that an education is for.
		Media ecology is the study of human environments.
		The external problems include: (a) competition with the traditional disciplines of study in U.S. schools; (b) the perception that media education is merely a special interest; and (c) a commercial imperative that is at cross purposes with the fostering of an astute and critical body of media users.
	www.franko.lviv.ua /mediaeco/zurnal/N3/gencarelli.htm (3363 words)

	Antonio R. López - Public Speaking Topics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Examining how mass media has functioned as a force of mental and spiritual colonization, this multimedia presentation explores methods media use to distort belief systems, and how various subcultures and artists have designed creative forms of resistance to the pop-culture-information-military-complex.
		Focusing on the environmental impact of media and consumerism, this hands-on workshop is for anyone wanting to learn the fine art of media deconstruction as it relates to the environment.
		The goal is to expose youth to various media practices from pre-technological oral cultures to the present digital media environment through a group project that enables students to report from a Utopian future hypercity using a video Web log (Vlog).
	www.medialiteracy.net /speakers/lopez/topics.shtml (2155 words)

	MediaLiteracy.com: Media Ecology
		Media consumers are guinea pigs in a global experiment that nobody's in charge of.
		Media, Culture and Society (academic journal) provides "a major international forum for the presentation of research and discussion concerning the media...
		The Media Ecology Association (MEA) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the study, research, criticism, and application of media ecology in educational, industry, political, civic, social, cultural, and artistic contexts."
	www1.medialiteracy.com /ecology.jsp (928 words)

	A First Look at Communication Theory
		As in all ecologies, a media environment is capable of being radically altered by a significant change within its system.
		By revealing the dynamics of media, McLuhan attempts to reestablish the social significance of art and artists outside the realm of traditional art.Responding to the initial criticisms of Understanding Media, McLuhan makes it clear that his work concerns the new role of art and artists in the age of new media.
		While Postman is primarily concerned with the ecology of television, his work sets a precedent for considering the moral consequences of all media environments.
	www.afirstlook.com /docs/mediaecology.cfm (6928 words)

	The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Understanding the emerging media ecology
		Since the principal and popular instruments of the information revolution — the electronic media and the computer — came to us close on the heels of their application in the West, we could, suddenly, transcend the technological lag of the industrial epoch and move forward abreast of the developed world.
		In the new pixellated media environment McLuhan's soothsaying finds fresh meaning, as when he talks of a dispersed media structure "whose centers are everywhere and margins are nowhere." The constructs and methods of the analogue world are jettisoned as we plunge headlong into this digital realm.
		Should the media place themselves purely at the mercy or bidding of the market, they would forfeit their right to the moral and statutory high ground they have enjoyed all along as a fourth pillar of democracy.
	www.hindu.com /2005/10/11/stories/2005101102841000.htm (1536 words)

	Towards professional participatory storytelling in journalism and advertising
		This paper discusses the history and contemporary examples of media work combining various elements of storytelling as a hybrid form between content and connectivity, and considers the normative and economical implications for the professional identity of media workers in journalism and advertising.
		Middletown Media Studies documented a gap between perceived and observed use of media; because of the pervasiveness of media in everyday life and the multitasking way we engage with those media, more than half of our media use ‘disappears’ when we are asked about it.
		In a contemporary ecology where American and Dutch people of every ilk seem to be immersing themselves almost constantly in media, those still earning the bulk of their salaries producing media content do not or even cannot see them as their peers.
	www.firstmonday.org /issues/issue10_7/deuze/index.html (4622 words)

	Why Mediology?
		Media is a combination of cultural materiality and political/social institutions.
		Media exist in an ecosystem of uses and social functions: new media do not replace earlier media in any simple way (like exchange or substitution), but new media change the whole social and economic system of media and change the relations among media used in a society.
		Media convergence in the wake of the convergence of computing and telecommunications, that is, the digitization of all media and the transmission or delivery of this media through digital networks, created a new environment for understanding "media ecology".
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/irvinem/theory/WhyMediology.html (852 words)

	…everyday internetwork ecology… (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Abstract: Media ecology is shown to embrace not only the study of media but also the study of language, culture and technology and the interaction of these four domains.
		It is demonstrated that language, culture, technology and media behave like living organisms in that they are emergent phenomena and that they evolve, propagate their organization and interact with each other in a media ecosystem.
		It is shown that both biological and media ecosystems may be considered as media in themselves and that an ecosystem is both the medium and the message.
	amuir.edublogs.org (1564 words)

	MediaChannel.org Features
		As noted media historian Erik Barnouw once shrewdly observed, every new media technology launched in the last 120 years has been met with equal measures of hope and despair.
		The media consolidations of the last 15 years constitute some of the most massive mergers in the history of global capital, yet the bottom-up insurgencies of the anti-globalization, anti-war, digital art and microcinema movements pulse with a mighty energy.
		Public media are no longer one unified practice of pure, uncontaminated independent media battling against corrupt corporate media.
	www.mediachannel.org /views/dissector/affalert391.shtml (914 words)

	Free Press : Greening the media ecology: Restraint
		There is currently a war afoot between media professionals intent on clear-cutting each new media forest they find, and media reform and media literacy advocates who rue the fallen trees and suggest alternative forms of media (to which the media professionals say, “Great, more new forests to clear cut.”).
		The only way to respect our media ecology is to first accept the notion of discrete media ecosystems with distinct limitations, ecosystems that like all others may require active oversight and management (not to mention the regulatory equivalent of an occasional “No Dumping” billboard) to prevent the extinction of the species that call them home.
		In lieu of any meaningful industry efforts to protect the media ecology, the task will fall by default to consumers and the government, both of whom seem increasingly inclined to exercise their power.
	www.freepress.net /news/5845 (1275 words)

	The Nature Institute - MEDIA ECOLOGY: TAKING ACCOUNT OF THE KNOWER
		All this is, I think, implicit in Postman's choice of the term, "media ecology." Stressing the parallel with environmental science, he notes that "one significant change generates total change.
		We are something new upon the face of the earth, and if there is a source of white heat and light from which the conversation of technology and culture will gain its future impetus and direction, we must not fail to look for it first of all within ourselves.
		The lesson of media ecology, I think, is that we encounter ourselves in the sphere of artifacts, and are becoming responsible for what we find there.
	www.natureinstitute.org /txt/st/knower.htm (8551 words)

	Institute for Social Ecology - Youth Media for Sustainable Agriculture
		The influence of media is exploited by the advertising industry, which employs media’s power to shape the beliefs, behaviors and attitudes of the American public.
		The Youth Media for Sustainable Agriculture program addresses the biotech industry’s advertising and public relations campaign by helping students develop the skills to decipher the messages in media products, to recognize influential media strategies, and to actively respond by producing their own media product.
		The biotechnology industry spends tens of millions of dollars each year in media campaigns that paint a rosy picture of agriculture in the United States by suggesting that GE foods can “feed the world”, portraying GE foods as “inevitable” and putting forward that there is no alternative to corporate market control of the food system.
	www.social-ecology.org /staticpages/index.php?page=youth_media (406 words)

	Clicknoise » The Mobile Web and Media Ecology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		There’s an excellent article in mopocket worthy of your attention today (the post is a response to a recent CNN article about the lack of SMS adoption in the United States).
		Our media ecology is changing according to the patterns of our culture, and the mobile web - more broadly construed as networking with mobile devices - is occupying and transforming different niches of our experience than would be conceivable in a Japanese setting, which instead produced ketai.
		I think that a broad overview of the media ecology of a social group (the interplay between media technologies and communicators, and their relative use, disuse, and misuse in various spheres of experience) is one of the better approaches to this problem.
	clicknoise.net /the-mobile-web-and-media-ecology (533 words)

	Doctoral Program Overview
		This area focuses on various aspects of mediated communication, approached with the perspective that they can only be understood, and critically examined by exploring the vast networks of relationships involved in their creation, development, and use, and the reciprocal influence they have on all aspects of culture and cultures throughout the globe.
		Particular areas of focus include: specific media formats such as print, television, radio, film and others; the innovation, development and diffusion of new media technologies and information systems; media education principles and practices; the political economy of media systems and the legal and regulatory regimes that underpin mediated and human communication.
		While grounded in the study of classical and modern rhetorical theory, this area focuses primarily on contemporary processes and strategies of persuasion, public deliberation and advocacy which provide insight into the ways in which the public sphere is constructed through strategic and intentionally-biased discourse, whether speech, text, sound, image, or performance-based.
	steinhardt.nyu.edu /dcc/doctoral (498 words)

	Cobourg Ecology Garden - Media page
		Our student gardener, Ashlea Hegedus-Viola was in attendance most of the day and spent an enjoyable time with the Club members in one of her myriad roles, as Garden ambassador.
		Students were completing class projects focusing on what a habitat is and what it provides, so a field trip to the Garden was a perfect end to their studies.
		The Cobourg Ecology Garden committee is so thankful for all of the assistance, which it receives, from near and far.
	www.cobourginternet.com /ecologygarden/media.htm (522 words)

	Deuzeblog: Infographics of a New Media Ecology
		Disclaimer: I realize that some of these graphs are dated and they do not all measure the same things, have different units of analysis, and some are predictive rather than descriptive - but I am interested in the macro trends the various stats and graphs of more or less equivalent phenomena seem to refer to.
		Liquid Media Work This post is a call for help an...
		Youths and their Media Meshing Hierarchy Of cours...
	deuze.blogspot.com /2006/01/infographics-of-new-media-ecology.html (227 words)

	Media Studies: Graduate Programs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Within the Social Impact of Media concentration, students are expected to augment their knowledge of journalism by examining media from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives.
		Florida's program in media studies is not only focused mainly on film, it is housed as a concentration within the English department.
		University of Iowa (PhD in Communication Studies concentration in Media Studies) The media studies program at Iowa, though housed in the department of communications, is strongly interdisciplinary.
	mediacloisters.vassar.edu /msdp/grad_programs.htm (1825 words)

	Comm217: The Shuttle Disaster and Media Ecology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Is the new media ecology more useful for journalists than readers?
		The virtues of the net in times of crisis are nothing new and, in a sense, it's sad to have another opportunity to mention them again.
		> Media overview - I was most fascinated by the 142 newspapers first pages gathered by The Poynter Institute on February 1st and on February 2nd.
	www.stanford.edu /class/comm217/archives/000138.html (335 words)

	The Media Ecology Association
		The Media Ecology Association (MEA) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the study, research, criticism, and application of media ecology in educational, industry, political, civic, social, cultural, and artistic contexts, and the open exchange of ideas, information, and research among the Association’s members and the larger community.
		Membership in the Media Ecology Association is open to anyone—faculty, students, business people, professionals—interested in exploring the interactions between communications media and culture.
		Serving as one of the MEA’s main channels of communication, our electronic mailing list provides a space for reasoned, informed, and civil discussion about communication, media, and culture among persons interested in themes and subjects relevant to the field of media ecology.
	www.media-ecology.org (302 words)

	Eco-fascism and Media Ecology
		So until we learn to visualise and see that the new animals are what we're dealing with and that the new nature is what ecology should be focused on (i.e.
		media ecology), then we will be lost and hijacked by such eco-fascists as Greenpeace, who hoist up the old nature, the old idea of the ideal green valley.
		The old nature will not survive no matter how eco-fascist we get because we are addicted to the electric environment, the new nature.
	members.tripod.com /~stuntdog/phase1.htm (193 words)

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