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Announcing the New Issue of Explorations in Media Ecology

The Official Journal of the Media Ecology Association

The second issue of volume 17 of Explorations in Media Ecology is now available online. If you’ve paid your MEA membership dues for 2018, you can sign in via the MEA website and access all of the articles. And if you haven’t paid your dues for this year yet, you still have time to do so and receive all of Volume 17, plus online access.

The print versions of the first two issues will be mailed out in the near future.

Here’s the link to access the content:

EDITORIAL

Lance Strate, Our media ecology journals

ARTICLES

Corey Anton, “Technology, hypocrisy and morality: Where, oh
where, has all the hypocrisy gone?”

Adam Robbert, “Media ecology and Bios Theoretikos:
Philosophy as extended cognition”

Jan Lukas Buterman , “All your base are belong to us”

Bartłomiej Knosala and Aleksandra Kuzior , “Marshall
McLuhan’s New Science as a case of reflection concerning
common ground for art, science and technology”

Liang Yi and Robert Albrecht , “Extending McLuhan”

PROBE

Michael Plugh, “What is media ecology?”

POETRY

Jim Andrews , “Default play mode text: Writing (Arteroids)”

REVIEWS

Karen Lollar, Review of More Sensible Thinking, by Martin H.
Levinson

Thomas D. Zlatic, Review of second edition of  Walter Ong’s
Contributions to Cultural Studies: The Phenomenology of the
Word and I-Thou Communication, by Thomas J. Farrell

Robert K. Logan, Review of Sapiens: A Brief History of
Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari

Ron Jacobson, Review of Writing Myself into Existence: Notes
on a Literary Life and Other Adventures, by Arthur Asa Berger

Ira Nayman, Review of McLuhan in an Age of Social Media, by
Paul Levinson

Arthur W. Hunt III,  Review of The Benedict Option: A Strategy
for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation, by Rod Dreher (2017)

Bill Petkanas, Review of Confronting Technopoly: Charting a
Course Towards Human Survival, edited by Phil Rose

Just as a reminder, here are the contents of issue 17.1:

EDITORIAL

Lance Strate, The real impact factor

ARTICLES

Thomas Sutherland, “Searching for stillness in the flux of the
electric world: The vorticular critique of time-philosophy in
Marshall McLuhan and Wyndham Lewis”

Nicholas C. Grodsky  Julia M. Hildebrand, and  Ernest A.
Hakanen, “Screens as human and nonhuman artifacts:
Expanding McLuhan’s tetrad”

FORUM

John Dowd, Ecologies of education: Teaching and learning in
the digital environment

Catherine Adams, Whither the school in the age of the
algorithm?

Roger Saul, Two paths to the future

Joris Vlieghe, Education in a digital age: How old and new
technologies shape our subjectivities

PEDAGOGY

Casey R. Schmitt, WALL-E, Classroom discussion, and media
ecology’s stupid question

PROBE

Nora Bateson: #MeToo is complex

POETRY

Sahra Bateson Brubeck, Persephone and the Sea”

REVIEWS

James C. Morrison, Review of Marshall McLuhan by Douglas
Coupland

Mary Lahman, Review of Paradox Lost by Linda G. Elson

Stephanie B. Gibson, Review of Communication Uncovered:
General Semantics and Media Ecology by Corey Anton

Abby Dress, Review of Digital Shift:The Cultural Logic of
Punctuation by Jeff W. Scheible

Laura Trujillo Liñán, Review of Misbehavior in Cyber Places:
The Regulation of Online Conduct in Virtual Communities on the
Internet by Janet Sternberg

Robert Albrecht,  Review of Roger Waters and Pink Floyd: The
Concept Albums, and Radiohead and the Global Movement for
Change by Phil Rose

Carol Wiebe, Review of Biopolitical Screens: Image, Power and
the Neoliberal Brain by Pasi Väliaho

Howard Rheingold, Review of The Kingdom of Speech by Tom
Wolfe

Call for Submissions for ETC: A Review of General Semantics

Now in its 74th year of continuous publication, ETC: A Review of General Semantics is the official quarterly publication of the Institute of General Semantics.  ETC. welcomes submissions about the symbolic environments in which humans spend their time, with a focus on the study of the intersections of language, thought, and behavior.  Specifically, we are interested in approaches to the nature of language, how human beings make what we call meaning, and how we can be better meaning-makers through an understanding of the relationships among symbols, mind, meaning, language, thought, and culture.

Submissions fall into four main areas — keeping in mind, of course, that these categories are tentative, artificial, and subject to revision.  The categories are meant to express the broad range of possible contributions, not to limit them.  Contributors are not required to specify the area into which a particular piece falls.

Category 1: Articles about the symbolic environment, emerging or persisting metaphors, and current or historical studies of symbol use that advance the academic understanding of symbols and human behavior and culture.

Category 2: Cases and observations of language use and misuse in politics, commerce, public discourse, relationships, and self-talk that contribute to our personal understanding of the relationship between symbols and behavior.

Category 3: Instructional schemata for educators to illustrate general semantics principles: lessons plans, activities, demonstrations, etc.

Category 4: Poems, diagrams, short fiction, artwork, or other vehicles for thought that express or explain some idea about symbols and behavior, such as maps and territories, abstractions, non-categorical thinking, extensional thinking, or the principle of “et cetera.”

How to Submit

Article submissions are accepted electronically via email.  All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.  Please submit your work to:

• Editor: Thom Gencarelli (editor-etc@generalsemantics.org)
• Book Review Editor: Martin H. Levinson (MandkLevin@aol.com)

The following are the Writer’s Guidelines for contributors to ETC: A Review of General Semantics (modified November 2, 2016):

We accept manuscripts electronically in Microsoft Word.  E-mail your documents, as attachments, to editor-etc@generalsemantics.org.  Please contact us if you experience technical issues.

Since we are an interdisciplinary community, writers are invited to use the citation and referencing style of their choice (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).

Include photos, illustrations, and graphics in the manuscript, but please also send them as separate files.  Acceptable formats include .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .tif, and .bmp formats. Graphics should be as high resolution as possible.  Permissions for copyrighted material are the responsibility of the author.  Please contact the Editor for any assistance needed.

Please do not use automated footnote or note referencing programs.

We especially encourage submissions by students.

If you submit an article that has been previously published, please obtain reprint permissions prior to submission to ETC. and provide such permissions with your submission.

For more information, you can contact the editor, Thom Gencarelli, directly at thom.gencarelli@manhattan.edu.

Also, please visit the Institute of General Semantics website for further information, or for current or back issues of ETC: A Review of General Semantics by clicking here.