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A Review of McLuhan in Reverse by Robert K. Logan
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by Robert K. Logan
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The Global Village in our Living Room: Our Pandemic Journeys with Media and Knowledge
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The social distancing experience has been challenging for everybody around the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper explores new ways we have been facing this unpredictable situation and interacting with each other through the media. It is an experience report about how we are communicating, working and carrying out domestic routines, with a focus on media and knowledge issues. We conducted qualitative fieldwork research, applying three design thinking tools: the persona, the empathy map, and the user journey map. The participants were graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and professors of the Knowledge Engineering and Management Graduate Program of the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil. Results indicate the Global Village is now our living rooms. Also, media have become extensions of our bodies and senses in activities we had never thought we would be doing by ourselves inside our homes. Thus, the application of design thinking tools allowed us to better understand and discuss the complex and unprecedented pandemic journeys we are experiencing. 
Thinking society and cultural practices in the (digital) hybrid age: Notes and queries on Media Ecology ResearchThinking society and cultural practices in the (digital) hybrid age: Notes and queries on Media Ecology Research
No full textLooking at the role of information and contemporary media ecology means examining society from a complex approach, as a whole system, considering its political, economic, and cultural dynamics. The Internet is not a mirror of physical interactions, but a new configuration of reality that produces new places of living in society: hybrid public spaces (blending of no-presential and presential interactions). The hybrid (digital) age must be thought of in a double movement: on the one hand, as the result of a precise state of contemporary societies, the result of cultural referents (memes) that shape collective identities, and, on the other hand, our cultural productions, their valuation methods and ways of integrating these values into existing (and new) communities. Today, new communication technologies are redefining social relations, cultural practices, and economic and political orders, where the major issues are disinformation and citizen manipulation. A main question guides this epistemological exploration: how function the interdepend paths between technology and society, global values and local cultural practices, and socio-economic actors and “mediatized realities”? Some examples of ethnography on migrants and youth gangs will be analyzed for this purpose
A Review of Doing the Right Thing
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by Tom Cooper
UK: Academic Publishing, 202
Technologizing Asia: Uncovering Techno-Orientalism’s Constructions of Asian Futurism.
No full textTechnologizing Asia: Uncovering Techno-Orientalism’s Constructions of Asian Futurism
No Mystery that B.W. Powe’s Latest Gathering of Poetry and Prose “Mysteria” Is a Must Read: A Review
No full textNo Mystery that B.W. Powe’s Latest Gathering of Poetry and Prose “Mysteria” Is a Must Read: A Revie
Surveillance Capitalism Pandemic
No full textA review of Shoshana Zuboff\u27s book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism; The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power is made
Review: The Medium and the Light
No full textA review is made of Marshall and Eric McLuhan\u27s book: The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion