Understanding Media Ecology

ISSN: 2374-7676

Media Ecology is a field of inquiry defined as ‘the study of media as environments’. Within this field, the term «medium» can be defined broadly to refer to any human technology or technique, code or symbol system, invention or innovation, system or environment. Media ecology scholarship typically focuses on how technology, symbolic form, and media relate to communication, consciousness, and culture – past, present and future. This series publishes research that furthers the formal development of media ecology as a field of study. Works in this series bring a media ecology approach to bear on specific topics of interest, including theoretical or philosophical investigations concerning the nature and effects of media or a specific medium. Further, this series also publishes books that examine new and emerging technologies and the contemporary media environment, as well as historical studies of media, technology, modes, and codes of communication. Scholarship regarding technique and the technological society is particularly welcome, as is scholarship on specific types of media and culture (e.g., oral and literate cultures, image, etc.). Publications may also consider specific aspects of culture (such as religion, politics, education, journalism, etc.); critical analyses of art and popular culture; and studies of how physical and symbolic environments function as media.

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Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI Studies)

WPI Studies is sponsored by Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the nation's third oldest independent technological university. WPI Studies aims to publish monographs, edited collections of essays, and research tools and texts of interest to scholarly audiences. WPI Studies accepts manuscripts in all languages, and is especially interested in reviewing potential publications on interdisciplinary topics relating science, technology, and culture. WPI Studies is edited by a board of WPI faculty from many disciplines. 'The board is chaired by Lance Schachterle, Assistant Provost and Professor of English, to whom potential authors should direct their inquiries WPI Studies is sponsored by Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the nation's third oldest independent technological university. WPI Studies aims to publish monographs, edited collections of essays, and research tools and texts of interest to scholarly audiences. WPI Studies accepts manuscripts in all languages, and is especially interested in reviewing potential publications on interdisciplinary topics relating science, technology, and culture. WPI Studies is edited by a board of WPI faculty from many disciplines. 'The board is chaired by Lance Schachterle, Assistant Provost and Professor of English, to whom potential authors should direct their inquiries WPI Studies is sponsored by Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the nation's third oldest independent technological university. WPI Studies aims to publish monographs, edited collections of essays, and research tools and texts of interest to scholarly audiences. WPI Studies accepts manuscripts in all languages, and is especially interested in reviewing potential publications on interdisciplinary topics relating science, technology, and culture. WPI Studies is edited by a board of WPI faculty from many disciplines. 'The board is chaired by Lance Schachterle, Assistant Provost and Professor of English, to whom potential authors should direct their inquiries

19 publications