Abstract: The field of media education, emerging within the instrumental vision of modernity, has largely ignored its unspoken modernist assumptions. In this article, we argue the time has come to fully engage an embodied view of media from an evolutionary, ecological perspective—what we might call ecological modernism. This is a perspective that views media as evolving … [Read more...] about Media Education and Ecological Modernism: Embodiment, Technology and Citizenship
Author Profile: Carl Bybee
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Associate Professor of Media StudiesUniversity of OregonCarl Bybee is an associate professor of Media Studies in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon and Director of the Oregon Media Literacy Project. His research and teaching draw on American Pragmatism to focus on understanding media and media activism through the lens of an integrated understanding of biological and cultural evolution, embodiment and democratic culture.