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Media Ecology’s executive dropout Bob Dobbs wears many, many hats. Perhaps he’d rather say he deftly straddles five bodies. He certainly defies conformity or easy introduction, but descriptions would certainly include conspiracy radio host, public convention-crasher, paranormal interview subject, and essayist. His autobiography doesn’t merely strain credulity; as he tells it, Bob’s identity is frankly
A book is a beginning. In the last decade, when some might have said the book was dead, books have really come alive for me. Some may be inclined to say that books are not living things—but I know differently: books, libraries, are not inert, and there is more than meets the eye. There they sit,
I met Marshall McLuhan when he replaced me as a guest lecturer at Fordham University in September of 1967. That’s the story I’ve been telling all these years, and it’s mostly true. John Culkin, S.J., who had an uncanny talent for keeping his ear to the ground, learned in the spring of 1967 that I
It was a drizzly day in New York in the Spring of 1977, if memory serves. I was more than halfway through with my PhD in the Media Ecology Program at New York University, and Neil Postman was my doctorial dissertation advisor. I went up to see him in his office off Washington Square Park.
In the past few months, I’ve done a large number of podcasts and videos about COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and the media: A – I had conversations with Neil Andersen and Carol Arcus about all of those topics on their Mediacy podcast. You can find links to them all over, but here are the Apple Podcasts link
Originally posted July 8, 2020. Updated October 28, 2023. The electric light is pure information. Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media The Trojan Horse On October 25, 2019, Philip Morais with Windsor Law and School of Creative Arts hosted Media & Space: The Regulation of Digital Platforms, New Media & Technologies Symposium. It was an interdisciplinary event launched
Technology has grown from some devices and platforms we use to an entire environment in which we function We may come to remember this decade as the one when human beings finally realized we are up against something. We’re just not quite sure what it is. More of us have come to understand that our
I first met Marshall McLuhan in 1974 at the Coach House on the campus of St. Michael’s College, the University of Toronto. I was a professor of physics carrying out research in theoretical elementary particle physics, lecturing undergrad and grad courses and supervising grad students. In addition to these straight forward duties of a physics