After a while the numbers just don't make any sense. Enter information visualization. Check out this BBC article on the efficacy of presenting hard-to-comprehend information visually.
Picture links to larger image at InformationIsBeautiful.net.
Tag: Media
Rare Marshall McLuhan Audio Lecture
Great Marshall McLuhan at John Hopkins lecture
found over at StarLarvae. Thanks to Heresiarch for making it available.
Media Maven Robert Logan's new $45 book out The Extended Mind!
Media Ecology Convention at Santa Clara, CA, 19-22 June, 2008
Amazing! Walter Ong surfaces! One of McLuhan's major Mentors!
The Ninth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association
2008 Call for Awards Nominations
2008 Call for Awards Nominations
Communication, Technology and the Sacred
Santa Clara, California
June 19-22, 2008
Convention Coordinators:
- Paul Soukup, S.J. (Psoukup at scu.edu) Santa Clara University
- Anne Pym, Ph.D. (anne.pym at csueastbay.edu) Cal state University East Bay
If, as Walter Ong suggests, technologies of communication and information affect noetic economies (structures of thought); and if noetic economies have to do with what it means to be human; it seems important to consider how the spoken and the mediated word and image contribute to the human soul – or to the sacred. How have technologies and the larger media world altered our experiences of the sacred?