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Comments on Understanding God as a Medium: A Dialogue between Albert Camus and Marshall McLuhan
No full textThis paper takes the stance that the God figure is a medium as much as a digital platform, device or other conduit of communication, as per Marshall McLuhan’s famous aphorism and to reference Camus, that a certain absurdity is attached to the concept
Review: Markus Friedrich’s The Jesuits: A History, translated by John Noel Dillon
No full textReview: Markus Friedrich’s The Jesuits: A History, translated by John Noel Dillo
Review: Jonathan Sacks, The Power of Ideas: Words of Faith and Wisdom
No full textReview: Jonathan Sacks, The Power of Ideas: Words of Faith and Wisdo
Digital Media as a Form of Electronic Graffiti (e-Graffiti): From Walls to Social Media
No full textVol 3 No 2 (Fall 2023)
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Digital Media as a Form of Electronic Graffiti (e-Graffiti): From Walls to Social Media
Vanessa Martins
Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil [email protected]
Adriana Braga
Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro [email protected]
Robert K. Logan
University of Toronto [email protected]
Abstract: We will explore the thesis that social media are used to achieve many of the same objectives of traditional wall-based graffiti and as such are forms of electronic graffiti that can reach a much larger audience than traditional graffiti scratched or painted on walls, buildings, monuments and other public surfaces. The parallel of graffiti and e-graffiti is that both provide a medium of communication and expression to those without access to the traditional mass me- dia channels of society controlled by the owners (private or governmental) of commercial me- dia outlets. We will focus in this study on the uses of social media that parallel wall-based graf- fiti such as personal aggrandizement, boasting of achievements, protesting, expressing woke culture, political propaganda and protest, hatred, love, and rebellion. We also identify similari- ties and differences between wall-based traditional graffiti and e-graffiti
Probe: The Message(s) are now the Media: A 2030 Outlook on McLuhan
No full textMarshall McLuhan’s seminal “the medium is the message” one-liner, title to Chapter 1 of his 1964 book Understanding Media is a formidable sum up of mid 20th Century media analysis. With a remarkable economy of semantics, McLuhan posited that the powers inherent to radio and television were so immense that the technology itself needed to be the focus. McLuhan’s insight is worth revisiting with an updated frame of reference towards 2030, given our current fragmented media landscape. Finite analog broadcast networks who wielded immense powers have now been replaced by an abundant digital emporium, itself ruled by oligopolistic technology platforms.
 
A Review of Peter K. Fallon’s Propaganda 2.1: Understanding Propaganda in the Digital Age
No full textA Review of Peter K. Fallon’s Propaganda 2.1: Understanding Propaganda in the Digital Ag
Introduction to Special Review Section of The Poetry of Adeena Karasick
No full textIntroduction to Special Review Section of The Poetry of Adeena Karasic
