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McLuhan 100 Anniversary

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Happy Birthday Marshall!
Marshall McLuhan was born and spent his childhood in Edmonton in 1911, so we’re celebrating at the University over the next few months with the Media Ecology Association and a few projects such as Wave.
-Rob

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New Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Announcing new online journal Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies/Revue d’études interculturelles de l’image.
Imaginations is an open-access online peer-reviewed journal born out of research and developments in cross-cultural and intersecting epistemological fields that have at their root a determined focus on the role and power of the image in contemporary culture and in cultural [...]

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Oil Sands, North of Fort McMurray

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

These enormous scrapers, seen through a storm of dust and a late spring snow shower, are moving earth to establish a new oil sands mine.
-Andriko and Rob

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Meanderthaling To and Fro

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Contemporary mobile technologies — cell-phones, Blackberries, etc. — are resulting, I’m sure, in an increase in inter-personal collisions (connections?). The human, it seems, has difficulty navigating inner and outer worlds at the same time. This state of techno-obliviousness results in a new type of subject (or quasi-agent?): the Meanderthal. Read more about this phenomenon at [...]

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Renovations + new feed

Monday, November 12, 2007

Please excuse the mess around here as we complete our migration to Wordpress, and don’t forget to subscribe to our new Feedburner feed!
All the Blogger content has been imported, but it’ll take some time to properly categorise all the posts, and we need to get this template looking the way we want. Still, we figured [...]

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