New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication
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AI as DJ: Artificial Intelligence as the Arbiter of Musical Taste in Digital Media Platforms and the Cultural Continuum
No full textTechnological developments in digital sharing platforms encourage transient sensory experiences driven by choices that are determined by algorithms. Playing an increasingly greater role in driving cultural trends, artificial intelligence is impacting the medium of music, its curation, and culture as a representation of the human narrative. 
Marshall McLuhan\u27s General System Thinking and Media Ecology
No full textIt is argued that the most important contribution McLuhan made to the study of media was his general systems theory approach consisting of his figure/ground analysis and his general systems or field approach. 
Understanding Human Users: Extensions of Their Digital Media
No full textDigital media are not only extensions of their human users, as McLuhan
posited, but there is a flip or reversal in which the human users of digital
media become extensions of those digital media as these media scoop up
their data and use them to the advantage of those who own these media.
The implications of this loss of privacy as we become “an item in a data
bank” are explored and the field of captology is described. The feedback of
the users of digital media become the feedforward for those very same
media
A Review of B. W. Powe’s The Charge in the Global Membrane
No full textA review of B. W. Powe’s The Charge in the Global Membrane is made
Call for Articles for Issue #2 of New Explorations (NExJ), and for the Supplementary Blog at newexplorations.net
No full textCall for articles for NExJ and the Supplementary Blog at newexplorations.ne
The New Explorations Journal and Its Supplementary Blog: newexplorations.net: Taking Advantage of Our Digital Environment
No full textThe supplementary blog and its relationship to NExJ is described. It will be hosted on the newexplorations.net Web site
A Review of written matter, a book of poetry and photos by Andrew McLuhan
No full textwritten matter
by Andrew McLuhan
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Probe: Pope Francis’ 2025 Autobiography, and Walter J. Ong’s Thought
No full textProbe: Pope Francis’ 2025 Autobiography, and Walter J. Ong’s Though
