 | Although none of it (that I’m aware of) has been done to test media ecological principles, there’ve been a lot of neurological studies using fMRI technologies that supports this dichotomy of propositional versus presentational structures of thought. They’ve been able to track synaptic firings across specific neural pathways for different cognitive activities, and it turns out that we really do “think differently” when we read than we do when we use visual media. |
This is an excerpt from the blog of Peter K. Fallon, author of The Metaphysics of Media (The University of Chicago Press, Amazon) and Associate Professor of Journalism at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
In this specific post, he takes a shot at Mike Wesch’s video A vision of Students. Mike Wensch is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. In 2007, Wensch received The John Culkin Award from the Media Ecology Association for his viral video “The Machine is Us/ing Us” (the “Web 2.0” in just under 5 minutes, so it says).
Mike Wesch actually commented Fallon’s post and an interesting discussion ensued.
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