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Howie & The Outsiders: The Video-Article
No full textHowie & The Outsiders is a documentary film about the Chicago School of Sociology and their influence on Brazilian Communication Studies. Recorded in France, Portugal, Brazil and the USA, it features original footage shot in Chicago, Paris and Rio de Janeiro and video interviews with the social scientists Howard S. Becker, Rod Watson, Yves Winkin, Adriano D. Rodrigues, Celso Castro, Karina Kuschnir and Hermano Vianna
Photography and Symbolic Interactionism: How Foundations in Media Ecology, Particularly, Mead, Barthes, Sontag, and Langer, Helped Me Become a Photographer
No full textThis qualitative ethnographic essay explored the process of developing a photographic project using the foundations of media ecology. The underlying research question was, as a non-creative person, taking a photography class for the first time, how does one tackle an artistic assignment from an intellectual and theoretical perspective? The approach, as a media ecologist is to first recall certain pivotal authors on photography such as Sontag and Barthes. They sparked ideas related to symbolic interactionism which had me draw from other great authors such as Mead, Langer and Goffman. Using symbolic interaction as the theoretical framework, the idea for the theme as well as for each photograph developed into an exciting and well-conceived project, as I simultaneously worked on perfecting the artistic technique and skills required to complete the final assignment. The assignment was to have seven photographs that have a story or common theme and are also as close to technically perfect by photographic standards. My theme was based in media ecology as will be told in a Tribute to Rosie. The important implications of this paper are that rarely do we see an immediate application of media ecology principles or theories in business or praxis. This project showed that applying media ecology theories, enabled me to comprise a photography project that fits certain artistic criteria and was eligible for showing. 
A Review of Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis by Anna Veprinska
No full textA Review of Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis by Anna Veprinsk
Technological Society as Mediatized Society: An Introduction to Bernard Charbonneau’s Media Critique in its Bordeaux School Context
No full textLong overshadowed in publicity by his lifelong associate and friend Jacques Ellul, French theorist Bernard Charbonneau\u27s works must now receive their due recognition. Charbonneau\u27s prescient critique of the ecological movement, Le Feu vert (The Green Light) was released in 1980, and yet was only the first book of his translated into English in 2018. In this paper, the translator of that work turns his attention to Charbonneau\u27s media-ecological book, La Société médiatisée. Its major theme is the mass-media\u27s inability or unwillingness to address the primary issue preventing social progress on many fronts: the problem of mass inattention and disorganization which the media industry is itself responsible for creating and maintaining
Written Matter Excerpted for New Explorations Journal
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Three Looming Figures of the Digital Transformation
No full textThe impact of the digital transformation on human experience is examined
in terms of three key factors, namely: Self, Space and Time