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08
Oct

Identity narcosis: is McLuhan’s auto-amputation still relevant in the age of digital media?

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When media theory pioneer Marshall McLuhan dramatically announced in the mid 1960s that the medium, not the content it relayed, was the message,  he set in motion a conversation about how technology shapes who we are that has lasted until this day. Whether it was movies, advertising, the telephone or even a light bulb (McLuhan […]

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14
May

Will we be connected or conquered by new media? An apprehensive yet hopeful glimpse into our future through the posthuman eyes of WALL-E

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The following is an essay written by Virginia Streit as part of course work for her Master of Communication degree. The brief was to use a work of fiction to explore our uneasy relationship with technology.   With its strong environmental message and anti-consumerism theme, Pixar’s 2008 robot romance WALL-E appears at first to be a […]

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