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McLuhan's Techno-Sensorium City
In McLuhan's Techno-Sensorium City: Coming to Our Senses in a Programmed Environment, Jaqueline McLeod Rogers argues that Marshall McLuhan was both an activist and a speculative urbanist who drew from cross-disciplinary and ahistorical sources to explore constitutive exchanges between humanity and technologies to alter human perception and imagine a sustainable future based on collective participation in a responsive urban environment. This environment—a techno-sensorium—would endeavor to design and program technology to be favorable to life and capable of engaging with multiple senses. McLeod Rogers examines McLuhan’s active engagement with the vibrant art and urban design culture of his day to further understand the ways in which the links he drew between media, technology, space, architecture, art, and cities continue to inform current urban and art criticism and practices. Scholars of media studies, urbanism, philosophy, architecture, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.
Finding McLuhan
In 1965, Tom Wolfe famously asked of Marshall McLuhan: "Suppose he is the oracle of the modern times--what if he is right?" Fifty years later, McLuhan's biographer, his sons, and sixteen scholars explore the many ways in which McLuhan's predictions have come true.
Teaching Global Citizenship
Teaching Global Citizenship brings together perspectives from former and current teachers from across Canada to tackle the unique challenges surrounding educating for global awareness. The contributors discuss strategies for encouraging young people to cultivate a sense of agency and global responsibility. Reflecting on the educator’s experience, each chapter engages with critical questions surrounding teaching global citizenship, such as how to help students understand and navigate the tension at the heart of global citizenship between universalism and pluralism, and how to do so without frightening, regressing, mythicizing, imposing, or colonizing. Based on narrative inquiry, the contrib...
Virtual Menageries
The close interdependency of animal emissaries and new media from early European colonial encounters with the exotic to today's proliferation of animals in digital networks. From cat videos to corporate logos, digital screens and spaces are crowded with animal bodies. In Virtual Menageries, Jody Berland examines the role of animals in the spread of global communications. Her richly illustrated study links the contemporary proliferation of animals on social media to the collection of exotic animals in the formative years of transcontinental exploration and expansion. By tracing previously unseen parallels across the history of exotic and digital menageries, Berland shows how and why animals c...
Hey Baby! What's Your Name?
Unique in the marketplace Hey Baby! What's Your Name? is packed with fun and functional chapters and is a perfect guide for every Canadian parent trying to make that all important decision – what should they name their baby? Its special sections on truly Canadian names, relevant national statistics, Prime Ministers' names and place and literary names unique to the Great White North offer Canucks the first baby name book that speaks directly to them. And unique interviews with Canadian adults and children reveal what we really think about our names. Jam-packed with helpful tips about everything from the best time to name your child to the top 10 things to avoid when choosing a name, This bo...
Parenting/Internet/Kids: Domesticating Technologies
Parenting/Internet/Kids, with three key terms slashed together, conveys the idea that the practice of parenting may extend both to the Internet and to our children— to the extent that both require attention, care, and forms of regulation, and, in turn, provide support and enjoyment. While the triadic title is somewhat playful, it also strikes a serious note and introduces layered possibilities: we are not simply raising children who have grown up in the internet age, but also Domesticating Technologies by "managing" the computer (relatively young in age, too, having established itself in homes in the 1980s). Including perspectives from scholars and parents living in Australia, Canada, India, Japan, the UK, and the USA, the collection examines how the intimate presence of computer technology in our homes and on our bodies affects not only mothers and parenting, but family life more broadly.
Across the Disciplines
Across the Disciplines: Academic Reading and Writing guides students through the essential skills needed to write effectively in any discipline - summary, paraphrase, introductions, conclusions, critical reading, synthesis, and research. The Anthology section provides a wide range of intriguing readings featuring articles from various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
Quilting a New Canon
This wide-ranging collection of essays constitutes "an attempt to ground a theory of justice in the experience of injustice." Are Western doctors who aggressively market fetal sex determination technology to South Asian women really motivated, as they claim, by a respect for Hindu cultural traditions? Why have all organized attempts to reform prostitution laws- from Victorian "social purity" movements to contemporary prostitutes' rights groups- proved futile? Feminist inquiry into difficult and provocative questions like these, provides a socio-economic context for the literary critiques and theoretical discussions of other essays, lending them a sense of relevance and immediacy seldom found in academic writings. This book doesn't just insist that all women's voices must be "quilted" into the canon - it illustrates why.
