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Explorations in Media Ecology - Volume 20, Issue 3, 2021

Volume 20, Issue 3

Volume 20, Issue 3, 2021

Language: English
  • Articles

      • Public apologies and the psychodynamics of orality

        https://doi.org/10.1386/eme_00093_1

        Though many scholars note the importance of the spoken apology, the overwhelming majority of research from the field of communication does not discuss apologies in terms of orality itself. Drawing on Walter Ong’s psychodynamics of orality, the author argues that we need to an apology as it is an instance of residual orality which does not make sense when analysed from the detached, rational, literate, perspective. In the moment of the , ‘I’m sorry’, the desire to analyse our feelings in terms of abstract, rational concepts dissolves as we are called to forgiveness.

    • From media to machines: A machinic perspective on the evolution and crises of Facebook

      https://doi.org/10.1386/eme_00094_1

      This article diagrams Facebook as a megamachine, arguing that this diagram helps scholars better understand technological evolution and the production of subjectivity. The article contrasts a medium-based approach to Facebook, which emphasizes how Facebook enables neo-liberal subjectivity, with a machinic approach, which illustrates how Facebook also produces the . The affected subject often conflicts with the imperatives of the neo-liberal subject, and this tension motors the evolution of Facebook’s algorithm, interface and moderation policies, as illustrated through the examination of changes to Facebook resultant from problems that emerged in the course of its history, including too much information, becoming swamped with sponsored viral content, lack of expressivity in the like button, hate speech and disinformation. Such tensions, part of a more general crisis faced by contemporary capitalism, will shape the future of subjectivity and media evolution alike.

  • Poetry

      • , an excerpt

        https://doi.org/10.1386/eme_00095_1

        (SMS/SMU) is part of the ‘Vispo Bible’, a life’s work I began in 2015 to translate every book, chapter and verse of the Bible into visual poetry. I have translated over 330 pages of the Old and New Testaments so far. The goals of SMS/SMU are to celebrate and centre women, their resilience and strength, their accomplishments and their lives, to grieve for and remember those who have been unnamed, murdered and those who are missing, to support and show solidarity with women who are currently the targets of online bullying and cyberstalking; challenging the hateful and harmful attitudes that continue to exist about women while foregrounding the textilic aspect of language; how language itself is material.

  • Pedagogy

      • Digital media may cultivate awareness and responsibility in users: A case for optimism

        https://doi.org/10.1386/eme_00099_1

        If every technology has a bias, then the biases of digital communication technologies include broad superficial contact, unreflective behaviours, and tribalism on the one hand, and cosmopolitan attitudes and a wider circle of care on the other hand. Digital media can help develop awareness and responsibility – if humanity consciously works the dangerous biases of this medium. To maximize the benefits of digital media, we propose that school curricula focus more on understanding cognitive biases, recognizing nuances and postponing judgement. This article describes a theoretical framework for this change in curricula. Challenges to the ideas of this article are addressed in Appendix 2 through ‘Disputation between the Sceptic and the Believer’.

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