Bøger i Media Ecology serien

This work examines the history of electronic media in education, from film through radio, television, and automated instruction, ending with a look at contemporary educational technology. It relates history to ideas about what schools are for, and how teachers should teach.

Contributing to the renewal of interest in Marshall McLuhan and his work, this book contains chapters providing a general discussion of his work, and examining it in light of theory and research.

This text investigates some of the most fundamental effects of electric technology that change the human spirit: particularly information overload and our strategies for inhibiting that onslaught. It shows how technical complexity consistently devours simple realities and thus erodes meaning.

Contributing to the renewal of interest in Marshall McLuhan and his work, this book contains chapters providing a general discussion of his work, and examining it in light of theory and research.

This book uses television news coverage of the 1993 Midwest flood as a case study to analyze the intersection of television news and nature, with specific focus on how this intersection must be examined within the context of place.