IWC Media Ecology Wiki Project

 

 

 

Media Ecology is the study of the ways that forms of media influence society. This wiki was created by the students of Dr. Martinek's Media Ecology and the Humanities course at Iowa Wesleyan College. The wiki is open to invited viewers and editors. Viewers are encouraged to leave comments on the entries and suggests additions/corrections to existing entries or to suggest additional entries.

 

Spring 2011 - Final Exam Discussion Page (use this to communicate with the professor and peers about the final exam)

 

New Articles in process by the Spring 2011 Class:

 

Comic Books - by Diana Hayes

Body Language - by Anna Bosak

Mobile Computing - by Shakka Eke Kanu

Communication Satellites - by Cameron Sanchez

The World Wide Web - by Allison Roberts

Literacy - by Callie Petherick

Postal Service - by David Elmore

Short-Wave Radio - by Ronald Ince

 

 

Older Articles from Previous Semesters:

 

General Semantics - by Jeff Martinek

Guy Debord - by Kate Fisher

Motion Pictures - by Kathy Rodine

Communication Tools for the Deaf and Blind - by Kate Fisher and Cameron Sanchez

Guilielmo Marconi by Kate Fisher

Sequoyah, The American Cadmus -  by Lydia Baker-Crawley

Egyptian Hieroglpyhics by Carrie Mehaffy

Marshall McLuhan - by  Amy Smith and Zach Reiter

Digital Piracy by Emily Hymes and Ronald Ince

Peer-to-Peer Networks by Emily Hymes

Code Talkers by Lydia Baker-Crawley

Wikis by Michael Lowe

Luddism by Victor Reyes

Multimedia Art by Amy Smith

Johannes Gutenberg by Samantha Howe

The Bible by Emily Hauenstein and Diana Hayes

Sign Language by Emily Haunstein

The Phonograph by Heather Wilkins

Computer Hacking by Raigan Wear

Medical Information Technology by Kara Fort

Body Language by Kara Fort and Anna Bosak

S.I. Hayakawa by Michael Lowe

Magazines by Samantha Howe

Morse Code by Timothy Messer

Ideographic vs. Alphabetic Languages by Harry Huang

The Alphabet by Megan Couch

The Book by Liz Hnizdo and Callie Petherick

Home Video (VCR, DVD, TiVo) by Liz Hnizdo

Mp3 and Digital Music Distribution by Katie Leidl

Musical Notation Systems by Heather Wilkins

Online Learning by Victor Reyes

Bluetooth Technology by Timothy Messer

The Telegraph - by Derik Garrels

Photography - by Genia Wyatt and Jose Calderon

The Star System - by Kathy Rodine

Orality and Literacy - by Priscilla Marlar

Secondary Orality - by Robyn Wilson

Propaganda - by Robyn Wilson

Cell Phones - by Aimee Kowalski and David Elmore

Harold Innis - by Kim Fitten

Semiotics: The Science of Signs and Symbols - by Carrie Mehaffey and Chad Chumley

Susan Sontag - by Genia Wyatt

Walter Ong - by Priscilla Marlar and George Goodlow

Mass Media - by Chris Walz

Hardware and Software - by Harry Huang and Chris Walz

YouTube and Internet On-Demand Video - by Aimee Kowalski and Raigan Wear

Online Social Networking - by  Katie Leidl, Sarah Anderson, Kate Fisher, Shakka Ekke Kanu

The Telephone - by Sarah Anderson

Transportation and Transmission - by Chad Chumley

Video Games - by Zach Reiter

Time and Space Theory - by Kim Fitten

E-mail - by Jennifer Crowe and Allie Roberts

Instant Messaging - by Jackie Lovik and Jennifer Crowe

The Quipu - by Derik Garrels

Television - by Erica Holden

Radio - by  Megan Couch and Erica Holden

Newspapers - by Jackie Lovik

Compact Disc Technology by George Goodlow

 

 

Please visit these pages and leave your constructive comments, suggestions, corrections, additional sources, etc. Let others in the IWC community know about this project and encourage them to do the same!

Articles Needing Development:

 

Under Development:

 

Neil Postman (stub)

Alfred Korzybski (stub)

Number Systems (stub)

 

New Articles Needed:

 

Susanne Langer

Edmund Carpenter

James Burke

Eric Havelock

Walter Lippmann

Johannes Gutenberg

Owen Barfield

Stephen Talbott

Langdon Winner

James Carey

Benjamin Whorf

Edward Sapir

Guy Debord

Jean Baudrillard

Norbert Weiner

Tim Berners-Lee

Ted Nelson

Cliff Stoll

 

 

Technology Criticism

Meme

Information Overload

The Printing Press

Cuneiform

Peer-to-Peer Networks

Cybernetics

Feedback

Illuminated Manuscripts

Ideograms, Pictograms and other non-Alphabetic Writing

Computers

Literacy

Censorship

Podcasting

Memes

Blogs

E-Commerce

Encyclopedias

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