[Air-l] conceptual lexicon

[Alex Kuskis]

Media ecology is neither new nor original to this person. 
It's a well established approach to media and communication
studies founded on the work of McLuhan, Postman, Ong and
others, with its own association, listserv, journals, publications,
and conferences. See http://www.media-ecology.org/ .....Alex

Alex Kuskis PhD
e-Scholars.ca
Adjunct Professor of Communication
Gonzaga University

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Denise N. Rall" <denrall at yahoo.com>
To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Air-l] conceptual lexicon


> Dear AIR-ers -
> 
> A great discussion going here. I just came from the
> Georgina Born (Emmanuel College, Cambridge University)
> Masterclass at the Cultural Research Network,
> University of Queensland. She has other dates to
> follow in Australia. I highly recommend looking into
> the CRN, lots of stuff going on there.
> 
> She uses the term media ecologies to describe her work
> with the BBC.  That reminded me of information
> ecologies as offered by Bonnie Nardi et al.
> 
> I am an ICT agnostic. I don't use it, but it doesn't
> bother me when others use it. In my thesis I use
> networked technologies.  Wimpy, but at least it's not
> another acronym.  But I wasn't too happy with media
> ecologies.  Yes, they grow, but ecology is actually
> means the STUDY of ecologies. Not the systems
> themselves although that distinction has faded in the
> common parlance.
> 
> As I thought about it, I was happier with media
> ecosystems.  The systemic can address issues of
> infrastructure, political economies, and information
> in a way that I think the term media ecology does not.
> Ok, cheers,
> 
> Denise
> Denise N. Rall, PhD thesis in revision, School of Environ. Science,
> Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA
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