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Living in Harmony
Basil Johnston believes that stories are the ideal medium with which to convey Anishinaabe values to Western education systems, potentially reversing the damage done by Western Anthropologists who have continually misrepresented Indigenous people as having no concerns beyond mere survival. -
From Snake Oil to Silicon
An address to the University of Windsor Law Faculty on October 25, 2019 by Andrew McLuhan. This address was part of the Media & Space: The Regulation of Digital Platforms, New Media & Technologies Symposium. -
Hashtags, Digital Blanks, and Social Justice
The power of the #hashtag as a digital blank is equal to that of the printed blank in its ability to configure identities. What is the special place of social-justice complexes like #BlackLivesMatter and #DefundThePolice in the world of the digital blank? -
COVID-19 as World War
When the enemy in this war is a virus, anyone you meet is a potential combatant. This is an enemy without ideology, without a face. Familiarity and trust have no place as your closest people, not to mention strangers, could be carriers—are a threat. -
Planned Obsolescence
Planned obsolescence is a modern business strategy that builds obsolescence into a product in order to limit its life span, effectively making consumers re-purchase the product over and over. -
Instant Visual Grammatica
A tetradic analysis of Instagram can be carried out to examine the defining characteristics and digital conventions of both the form and content of this extremely popular social media application. -
Negotiating Code
Television studies must now be expanded to include the screens associated with television, as TV appears to have escaped the confines of the domestic environment and gone public. -
Psychology, Enchantment, and the Fairy Tale
The social science of psychology, which developed fairly quickly in the early twentieth century, retrieves the fairy tale as an object of study in order to peer with greater depth into the human psyche. -
Little Red Riding Hood and Angela Carter
Carter had a longstanding interest in the classical fairy tales and folklore of Europe. Taking inspiration from Perrault’s “Little Red Cap,” she would ultimately produce a radio play, a short story, and a motion picture.
