Coisas e Coisas
Centennial Conference. 26-28 October 2011 - Brussels(http://www.mcluhancentennial.eu/). "Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980): media theorist, cultural critic, provoker. Undoubtedly influential. Pitching phrases like 'the medium is the message' and 'the global village,' McLuhan rose to stardom in the 1960s, only to see his fame decay during the last decade of his life. Since the early 1990s however, his ideas have been gradually rediscovered by academics and pop culture alike. The digital revolution made him, retrospectively, a quite accurate analyst of the information era, even a visionary in the eyes of some. Within communication studies, cultural studies, sociology, and philosophy, his insights remain fertile ground for anyone trying to understand the interactions of humans, technologies, and media environments. In 2011, McLuhan would have celebrated his 100th birthday. A perfect moment to look back as well as ahead. During this interdisciplinary conference, we will discuss McLuhan's ideas from different perspectives and traditions. At the same time we wish to highlight an aspect of McLuhan that until now has been underexposed: his philosophy of media. Inasmuch as he reflected upon the workings and forms of media, McLuhan truly was a philosopher of technology, very much in the style of contemporary Anglo-American philosophers of technology: weaving together ontology, phenomenology, critique, and cultural observations into an eclectic patchwork bent on understanding media dynamics. And “media”, in McLuhan's sense, could be anything made by humans, ranging from cars over political systems to ideas". Organized by the Centre for Ethics and the Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology - Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication (IBBT-SMIT), Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) - http://www.vub.ac.be/.
- Living Stereo: History, Culture, Multichannel Sound
Living Stereo: History, Culture, Multichannel Sound is a symposium organized by the Sound Studies Group, Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art & Culture, of Carleton University, Ottawa, 9-11 March 2012. The conference...
- 10th Annual International Conference On Communication And Mass Media
Call for Papers and Participation at the 10th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media, 14-17 May 2012, Athens, Greece. Athens Institute for Education and Research-ATINER (http://www.atiner.gr/). Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President...
- Call For Papers
The 5th Global Communication Association Conference Global Power Shifts: Impact on Economy, Politics, Culture and Media. October 18-20, 2011. Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Conference Tracks and Topics include: Economics and Business: Macro and...
- 2011: Celebration Of The Mcluhan Centenary
2011 marks the anniversary of the birth of Herbert Marshall McLuhan. Born July 21 in Edmonton, Alberta, McLuhan grew into a literary and media icon of extraordinary renown, topping the Globe and Mail's end-of-millennium poll of the twentieth century's...
- Call For Papers Media And Transport Panel (scms New Orleans): March 2011
This panel seeks papers that interrogate the relationship between media and transport and attempt to rethink media through the lens of transportation and vice versa. At a metaphoric level, transport indicates carrying away, in the sense of physical mobility,...
Coisas e Coisas
MCLUHAN'S PHILOSOPHY OF MEDIA
Centennial Conference. 26-28 October 2011 - Brussels(http://www.mcluhancentennial.eu/). "Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980): media theorist, cultural critic, provoker. Undoubtedly influential. Pitching phrases like 'the medium is the message' and 'the global village,' McLuhan rose to stardom in the 1960s, only to see his fame decay during the last decade of his life. Since the early 1990s however, his ideas have been gradually rediscovered by academics and pop culture alike. The digital revolution made him, retrospectively, a quite accurate analyst of the information era, even a visionary in the eyes of some. Within communication studies, cultural studies, sociology, and philosophy, his insights remain fertile ground for anyone trying to understand the interactions of humans, technologies, and media environments. In 2011, McLuhan would have celebrated his 100th birthday. A perfect moment to look back as well as ahead. During this interdisciplinary conference, we will discuss McLuhan's ideas from different perspectives and traditions. At the same time we wish to highlight an aspect of McLuhan that until now has been underexposed: his philosophy of media. Inasmuch as he reflected upon the workings and forms of media, McLuhan truly was a philosopher of technology, very much in the style of contemporary Anglo-American philosophers of technology: weaving together ontology, phenomenology, critique, and cultural observations into an eclectic patchwork bent on understanding media dynamics. And “media”, in McLuhan's sense, could be anything made by humans, ranging from cars over political systems to ideas". Organized by the Centre for Ethics and the Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology - Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication (IBBT-SMIT), Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) - http://www.vub.ac.be/.
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- Living Stereo: History, Culture, Multichannel Sound
Living Stereo: History, Culture, Multichannel Sound is a symposium organized by the Sound Studies Group, Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art & Culture, of Carleton University, Ottawa, 9-11 March 2012. The conference...
- 10th Annual International Conference On Communication And Mass Media
Call for Papers and Participation at the 10th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media, 14-17 May 2012, Athens, Greece. Athens Institute for Education and Research-ATINER (http://www.atiner.gr/). Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President...
- Call For Papers
The 5th Global Communication Association Conference Global Power Shifts: Impact on Economy, Politics, Culture and Media. October 18-20, 2011. Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Conference Tracks and Topics include: Economics and Business: Macro and...
- 2011: Celebration Of The Mcluhan Centenary
2011 marks the anniversary of the birth of Herbert Marshall McLuhan. Born July 21 in Edmonton, Alberta, McLuhan grew into a literary and media icon of extraordinary renown, topping the Globe and Mail's end-of-millennium poll of the twentieth century's...
- Call For Papers Media And Transport Panel (scms New Orleans): March 2011
This panel seeks papers that interrogate the relationship between media and transport and attempt to rethink media through the lens of transportation and vice versa. At a metaphoric level, transport indicates carrying away, in the sense of physical mobility,...