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McLuhan’s Ground
No full textWho was Marshall McLuhan beyond the media-created Sage of Aquarius caricature? The author knew McLuhan as his student and graduate assistant and wrote his Ph. D. thesis about Professor McLuhan’s relationship with Harold Innis. Images of McLuhan’s home life, classroom techniques, neighborhood presence, and campus interactions are contrasted with and ground the popular figure—“McLuhan”—generated by soundbite quotes from public interviews and catch phrases. Based upon archival materials, classroom experiences, lengthy interviews with McLuhan and some of his closest colleagues, and snapshots of McLuhan’s thinking and that of his followers and critics, this article aspires to bring both greater breadth and depth to the general second hand understanding of Marshall McLuhan
Walter J. Ong’s Bold Thought and John Dominic Crossan’s Timid View of the Historical Jesus
No full textWalter J. Ong (1967) modestly describes himself, in his subtitle, as presenting “Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History.” But I take a stronger reading of the selected “Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History” that Ong (1967) presents. In my stronger reading of Ong (1967), the historical Jesus scholar John Dominic Crossan is timid in his failure to use the full resources of Ong’s selected “Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History” to enrich our understanding of the historical Jesus. The goal of my commentary is to use Ong’s thought boldly here to deepen Crossan’s 1994 bold and daring formulations of the historical Jesus’s 93 original sayings
A View of the Internet from the Perspective of Harold Innis’ s Bias of Communication
No full textWe examine the Internet and the World Wide Web from the perspective of Harold Innis’s study of communication in his books The Bias of Communication (Innis 1964) and Empire and Communication (Innis 1950)
A History of Book Clubs
No full textWe explore, through exploratory bibliography, how book clubs and literary societies have changed over time. We do this in the context social, economic, technological and cultural characteristics of the societies in which these book clubs thrived in their diverse forms
Ability, Academia, and Audiobooks: In Conversation
No full textThis paper explores alternative access to research materials in postsecondary education before and during the pandemic, while keeping potential post- pandemic practices in mind. The authors stage this paper as a collaborative conversation, and it is available in both print and audio versions. Sarah Jensen and Anna Veprinska are researchers who were already encountering materials in alternative formats pre-pandemic. Their conversation will address medium- specific accessibility issues that have been understudied and that have become more salient during the pandemic. In particular, Jensen and Veprinska speak to the potentials and limits of digitization and audiotization by exploring how multimodal, intermedial, and/or poetic texts “resist” easy translations into different formats. Amid ongoing discussions of how access orients research, this paper addresses how open access and alternative formats such as digitized and audiotized versions of primary and secondary sources can and do alter research and criticism. More specifically, Veprinska speaks about the tensions inherent in experiential translation from print book to audiobook, poetry’s oral roots and its audiobook scarcity, and disability in the encounter with audiobooks. Drawing on examples from the atomic age and more recent publications, Jensen addresses intersectionality, intermediality, and untranslatability, arguing that alternative research access reveals and can produce certain excesses and voids
Digital Humanism and the Future of Humanity—Special Issue Editorial
No full textDigital Humanism and the uture of Humanity—Special issue
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Knowledge in the Age of Information: Human Values in Science and Higher Education
No full textKnowledge in the Age of Information: Human Values in Science
and Higher Educatio