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In this second edition of Understanding New Media Logan expertly updates McLuhan's Understanding Media to analyze the "new media" McLuhan foreshadowed and yet was never able to analyze or experience. The book is designed to reach a new generation of readers as well as appealing to scholars and students who are familiar with Understanding Media.

Based upon 45 years of work with young people in Jersey City classrooms, day camps, housing projects, libraries, church basements and community centers, the authors propose a pedagogical strategy that uses hands-on experiences in the arts as a strategy to offset and counterbalance the dominance of digital media in the lives of children.

Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition provides a long-awaited and much anticipated introduction to media ecology, a field of inquiry defined as the study of media as environments.

Originally written in the late 1970s, this book was untouched for more than 35 years. McLuhan passed away before it went to press, but Logan always intended to finish it. Looking at the future of the library from the perspective of McLuhan's original vision, Logan has carefully updated the text to address the impact of the Internet and other digital technologies on the library.

Dennis D. Cali offers a survey of a field as consequential as it is fascinating. Designed to be used primarily in media and communication courses, the book's goal is to hone insight into the role of media in society and to extend the understanding of the themes, processes, and interactions of media ecology to an ever-broader intellectual community.

A cross-disciplinary tour-de-force, The Genes of Culture integrates insights from philosophy, the physical sciences, social psychology and cultural criticism to pose challenging questions for today's students of media.

In exploring the everyday workplace and community environments of adults with liminal literacy, this book demonstrates how a media ecology perspective allows adult literacy and orality to be reimagined within a deeper and more holistic way than possible within disconnected disciplinary areas.

The purpose of this book is to understand the nature of social media and its impact on almost all aspects of modern-day existence. We reveal the effects of social media on users and the changing nature of our social interactions. Our approach is based on Marshall McLuhan's methodology of media ecology.

Despite McLuhan's claim that he did not work from a theory, his body of work in fact constitutes a theory that Robert K. Logan calls his General Theory of Media (GToM), characterized by a number of reversals.

¿Las personas con autismo nos permiten vislumbrar nuestra futura condición humana? ¿Podríamos estar impulsando nuestra propia evolución con nuestra tecnología y, de hecho, estar asistiendo al inicio de la siguiente etapa de la evolución humana?La tesis central de este libro es que, desde que hemos delegado la capacidad de leer los contextos en tecnologías como las redes sociales, la localización y los sensores, nos hemos vuelto ciegos al contexto. Dado que la ceguera al contexto -o caetextia en latín- es uno de los síntomas más dominantes del comportamiento autista en los niveles más altos del espectro, es posible que las personas con esa condición nos den un vistazo a nuestra propia evolución en el corto plazo. Podríamos estar asistiendo al inicio de la siguiente etapa de la evolución humana: el Homo caetextus.Con inundaciones e incendios cada vez más frecuentes y veranos insoportablemente calurosos, la huella humana en nuestro planeta debería ser evidente para todos, pero no lo es porque estamos ciegos al contexto. Ahora podemos ver y sentir el calentamiento global. Estamos siendo testigos de la evolución en tiempo real y dando a luz a nuestras especies sucesoras. Nuestros bisnietos pueden resultar una especie muy distinta a la nuestra.Este libro es imprescindible para todos los cursos de comunicación y estudios de los medios de comunicación que se ocupan de tecnologías digitales, los medios de comunicación, la cultura y la sociedad. También resultará esclarecedor para un público lector general preocupado por la polarización de la esfera pública, las dificultades para sostener la gobernanza democrática, las conspiraciones desenfrenadas y fenómenos como la cultura de la cancelación y la necesidad de avisos de contenidos sensibles y espacios seguros.