[Live Video] Time Is On Our Side, Yes It Is.

In the 22nd video of Adam Niven' s #FBLiveVideoChallenge for Media Theology Adam throws out some thought around how we understand time, and the impact this has on how we approach life.

Star Wars and Back to the Future Show How Movies are Still the Stories that Shape our Tribes

This week has seen mega hype surround the release of the new Star Wars trailer and Back to the Future day. And whilst perhaps we've shifted some of our viewing over to high rating, high production TV like Game of Thrones, House of Cards, Breaking Bad or Mad Men...so that movies aren't having the influence the once did, the adage still runs true: narratives shape our lives.

M.E. Monday #6

Today's a little late (and not quite Monday) M.E. Monday comes from James Carey....perhaps not seen as an official Media Ecologist....but his contribution to the field of communication and its overflow into media ecology is worth noting:

"...one can draw a definition of communication of disarming simplicity, yet, I think, of some intellectual power and scope: communication is a symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired, and transformed" (Communication as Culture 1989).

M.E. Monday #3

This week, here's a little gem from Neil Postman:

"New technologies alter the structure of our interests: the things we think about. They alter the character of our symbols: the things we think with. And they alter the nature of community: the arena in which thought develops" (Technopoly, 1992).