Interview by Mary-Charlotte Domandi, Santa Fe Radio Café
The Media Ecosystem
Q&A with Media Literacy Expert Antonio Lopez
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M-Passioned Member Antonio Lopez
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Interview with Antonio López for the National Association for Media Literacy Education.
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The Media Ecosystem: Growing better media gardens
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In The Media Ecosystem, Antonio Lopez examines how participatory media can draw an end to the ‘world system’ of the Industrial-Scientific Revolution and supplant it with a much needed Sustainability Revolution.
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Review: The Media Ecosystem — What Ecology Can Teach Us About Responsible Media Practice
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I value this book for its integral consciousness and its ability to bring together what humans should know, how they should know it, and what they should do with what they know. In this book, the media gets a failing grade across the board, while the author includes a constant focus on how the media should be central to making “ecological intelligence” part of our every thought and action.
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Review: The Media Ecosystem: What Ecology Can Teach Us about Responsible Media Practice
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Antonio López proposes a new vision of media education grounded in ecological consciousness. He borrows ideas from ecology and systems thinking, and foregrounds an ethics of collectivity, empathy and democracy. Steeped in metaphors of gardening, permaculture, and cultural commons, he elaborates a media practice that expresses a “green cultural citizenship” and calls for media educators to join in enlivening a media ecosystem.
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Book of the Week: Developing a Mediacology for a Media Permaculture
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How should we approach literacy in a digital age? For Antonio Lopez, it’s not just about using new types of media, but recognizing the different ways our brain deals with information, and that this is media-dependent but also inserted into the larger ecologies of our life, which must be sustainable.
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The Media Ecosystem – Chapter references
Because The Media Ecosystem is written in the spirit of a manifesto, it was an editorial decision to leave out a reference section and index. What follows, then, is a basic list of references for each section of the book. This is not a complete list, but meant to inspire further links beyond the book’s …
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Mediacology – Chapter Summaries
Introduction: Media Permaculture Applying an ecological model to media literacy requires switching perspectives by moving from the analysis of design objects, such as advertising, to the study of system design. This means not only studying the economics of production and ideology, but also understanding that media have innate cognitive designs as well. “Media Permaculture” is …
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