October 22nd, 2008 at 1:30 pm

McLuhan/Blogs

Some key pedagogical features:

  • Total involvement
  • Pattern formation
  • Expanded perception (categories blur)
  • Extension of self (voice, but also thought)
  • Playing R-O-L-E-S
  • A time/space for crossing boundaries/barriers
  • When two or more things are put into juxtaposition, the results are startling and effective (post, link, comment, response)
  • Small world networks (the global village - a tough place to live because we are totally involved)
  • Moving inward as an enclosed expert (centripetal); or moving outward as a networked agent (centrifugal)
  • A different type of dwelling place (ethos as network).  Living mythically and in depth.

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