The Media Ecology Tradition ENGL 526
Instructor: Christine Tracy
Contact: ctracy1@ninthmuse.org
526 Readings
Here are class readings in PowerPoint format. You will have to have Microsoft PowerPoint loaded onto your computer in order to see these.
Innis, the newspaper in economic development.pdfHavelock, Orality literacy and star wars.pdf
Eisenstein, Some conjectures on the impact of printing.pdf
Mumford, Authoritarian and Democratic Technics.pdf
McLuhan, McLuhan's laws of the media.pdf
Ong, Wired for sound.pdf
Ellul, The Technological Order.pdf
Langer, The cultural importance of the arts.pdf
Postman, The information age, A blessing or a curse.pdf
Whorf, The relation of habitual thought and behavior to lang.pdf
Here are html files:
Eisenstein, An unacknowledged revolution revisited.htm
Carey, The mass media and democracy.htm