Product Description: Old New Media examines how the introduction of a new medium threatens those accustomed to the old media environment. Taking a media ecology perspective to examine the historical transitions from oral to literate, print, electronic and virtual media environments, the book includes theoretical chapters and case studies in five areas: media ecology; critical media theory; freedom of expression; Eastern thought; and the body and the media environment...read more

Product Description: Transforming McLuhan explores the radical, critical, oppositional, humanistic line of descent in interpreting Marshall McLuhans work. Rejecting the dominant view of McLuhan as a conservative, uncritical herald of deterministic technological utopia and accomplice of corporate capitalism, Transforming McLuhan repositions McLuhan as a uniquely important thinker in cultural, critical, and postmodern communication and media studies...read more

Product Description: The argument made here is that there is a bond between McLuhan's media studies and Marx's political economy. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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