New Call for Papers: Education Overload
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The International Journal of McLuhan Studies seeks contributions for each monograph issue, embracing different theoretical and methodological approaches, to review McLuhan’s critical thought as represented in his lectures and writings. The aim of the Journal is to open a dialogue between academics, researchers, teachers, artists and business people, in order to relate the contributions of Marshall McLuhan to contemporary questions focused on issues of production, co-production and the consumption of media, intelligence, education, memory, identity, desire, art, design, collaboration and technology in the society of knowledge.
Spring-Summer 2012, Issue 2
Education Overload
From Total Surround to Pattern Recognition
Streams:
Alternative learning environment, collaborative learning, digital natives, educational computing, educational gaming, educational media ecology, edupunk, edutainment, e-portfolios, e-readers & iPads, figure-ground analysis, information literacy, invisible learning, digital literacy, learning analytics, learning biologies, learning interfaces, learning economies, massive online open courses (MOOC), new pedagogies, social-media driven education, tertiary orality, training of perception, web learning, wiki culture.
Call for papers:
The United Nations General Assembly in 2002 declared the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development: a ten-year period from 2005 to 2014 in which it is increasingly evident that education, culture and the way children are brought up form the keys for peaceful co-existence and a sustainable future.
Education was one of the central concerns of McLuhan's work. Marchessault (2008) writes that McLuhan’s total body of work expresses “a deeply and consistently pedagogical project” (p. 4). The two volumes Report on Project in Understanding New Media (1960), commissioned by the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, and The City as Classroom: Understanding Language and Media (1977) open a wide perspective on education, pedagogy and media in the Electronic Era.
Pattern Recognition. Probes and Ideas
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Probes, aphorisms and ideas for the call for papers "Education Overload: from Total Surround to Pattern Recognition". One interesting contribute is a CBC video with Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan debating on violence, alienation and the electronic envelope. The clash of two great minds. (1968) www.cbc.ca
Call for essays
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- Created on Thursday, 09 February 2012 15:28
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The collection of essays Media and Formal Cause edited by Eric McLuhan and published by NeoPoiesis Press is a book of great importance to the field of Media Ecology and McLuhan Studies. If you have not yet read it I urge you to do so. Corey Anton and I have both written papers discussing McLuhan's notion of formal cause which we plan to publish in a collection of essays reacting to and commenting on Media and Formal Cause. The abstracts of these papers are reproduced below. Any one wanting to read the complete papers should email Corey or me off line and we will email the papers to you. Corey and I will be joined by Lance Strate as editors of this collection. The purpose of this communication is to invite you to contribute to this collection by writing an essay sharing your thoughts of McLuhan's use of formal cause.
From Freud’s unconscious to digital unconscious
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For the International McLuhan Galaxy Conference in Barcelona the Scientific Committee prepared a session titled Social Media, Networks and Life. This session was inspired by three aphorisms by McLuhan: (1)“The user is the content”; (2) “The more they know about you the less you exist”; (3) “This has become the main business of mankind, just watching the other guy (and) invading privacy. Everybody has become porous”.
We can add a fourth aphorism to this list – (4) “the more they know about you the less you exist”- and make a direct connection of this session in the conference to the four seminars on the Digital Unconscious that Derrick de Kerckhove will be giving in the Internet Interdiscipinary Institute, University Oberta de Catalunya in 2012 (see dates and hours below).
McLuhan’s critical thought
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- Created on Monday, 30 January 2012 22:06
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Re-cognizing McLuhan’s critical thought. In 2011 over 200 events worldwide have revitalized vibrant multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary debate around McLuhan’s thought, best known for his popular concepts such as ‘the global village’ and ‘the medium is the message’. Drawing on his most famous works, The Mechanical Bride (1951), The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) and Understanding Media (1964), we can readily understand why in the last sixty years his name has mainly been associated to media theory. In the last two decades, especially, the arrival of the Internet, the explosion of new interactive media, the convergence between old and new media and the development of innovative communication practices have indeed confirmed that Marshall McLuhan’s ideas and the approach of the School of Toronto are still as relevant and transformative today as they were fifty years ago when he foresaw how technology would transform humanity. We cannot but acknowledge the impact of media technology on culture and welcome McLuhan’s thought in every disciplinary field, since there is no subject area, as a socially intended form of knowledge, which is excluded from a technological environment.
