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Cavell on the Spatial McLuhan, 2002.
Analyzes Richard Cavell's essay ?McLuhan and Spatial Communication? about early communication theorist, Marshall McLuhan.
2,436 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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Richard Cavell tackles one of the all-time greats of communication theory in his article on ?McLuhan and Spatial Communication.? The paper explains that Marshall McLuhan was one of the great prophets (some would say charlatans) of early communication theory. For a long time he was one of one of the only celebrities of the field and toured wildly to give his opinions on the subject. They were certainly opinions worth hearing, for he had some remarkably new and insightful things to say about media, communication, and the way in which technology affects human development. The paper shows, however, that within the scope of his own lifetime, he went from spokesman to outcast and academia widely turned against him. Before his death his saw the school he had founded shut down and his work widely discredited. Since the rise of the Internet, however, the development of other, new forms of entertainment and media, McLuhanism has enjoyed something of an academic comeback. It is with this background in mind that the paper approaches Cavell?s work on McLuhan, for much of his essay deals with presenting an explanation for McLuhan?s disenfranchisement from and eventual re-adoption by the academic community. According to Cavell?s central thesis, McLuhan?s anomalous position and his lasting durability within the field of communications theory both spring from his ?elaboration of a spatial model of communication... based on the notion of acoustic space... situated within the spatial bias of postmodernist thought.?
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"Cavell?s failure to bring up the way in which McLuhan?s theories on space have been substantiated through current technological advances is an important one. Cavell explains in great length the way that McLuhan?s theories draw from the history of technological development to explain the development of various forms of consciousness and space. Yet in explaining McLuhan?s continued relevance, he somehow fails to take the logical step and relate McLuhan?s dynamic space to what is today commonly called ?cyberspace.? Many theorists of the digital revolution look to McLuhan as one of the greatest prophets and thinkers of the Internet Revolution, having discussed its many complications and impacts years before it even existed. Paul Levinson explains that it is the Internet, not TV, that best fulfills the role of the media in creating the acoustic space described by McLuhan."
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Marshall McLuhan and the Media, 2006.
This paper examines the views and opinions of author Marshall McLuhan regarding the modern media and its impact on humanity.
1,553 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper analyzes the predictions and views of media guru Marshall McLuhan, who argued that all forms of media exert a compelling influence on humanity and society and not necessarily for the benefit of man. In one of his more well-known books, "The Medium is the Massage," McLuhan contends that people consume both medium and message as a total experience. The writer of this paper details the rapidly advancing technologies of the 21st century while examining their impact on humanity and society. This paper discusses the views of McLuhan, one of the founders of media ecology, who voiced his concerns that the media, especially television, brought the brutalities of war into our living rooms, while making the viewer numb to the negative happenings of the world. The author had many strong opinions regarding modern forms of media and communication, such as the telephone. McLuhan was concerned that phones made it possible for people to talk with one another without actually being together. This paper also delves into the various predictions and concerns McLuhan had regarding the emergence of electronic media, in which the author often stated that man's dependence on electronic forms of media would eventually spell the end of humanity as it it now known.
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"Of more concern, technology continues to expand the gap between the haves and have-nots. According to the International Telecommunication Union, 90 percent of Internet users come from industrialized countries and only 25 percent of people in developing countries have Internet access. A computer in Bangladesh costs eight years the country's annual salary. Similarly, in the United States, for example, technology, especially the Internet, is a class issue. Compare the number of the technology budget and wired PCs and laptops in the suburbs to that of the inner-cities and other poorer areas of the country. Information is power, and the power is located in similar pockets as the money."
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Marshall McLuhan: A Man With A Message, 2002.
This paper investigates some of the different theories put forward by communications guru, Marshall McLuhan.
1,040 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper discusses the social repercussions felt as a result of the mass media. The author examines the life and contribution to how the media is viewed by Canadian Marshall McLuhan. Some of the different areas examined are how language is used to express ideas, which individuals receive them and the mode of technology that occurs between the two. The author examines two different aspects of media, the languages of speech and the written word and how their impact is felt differently in society. The author also examines McLuhan's view on how new technology in this field impacted society, especially the individual. This paper demonstrates how McLuhan's different theories tied together and how in his opinion, it is the different modes of technology who have really come to influence how the media and its role in influencing society.
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"When a new technology is introduced to a society, new ratios will develop throughout and cultural perception will change. This is where one begins to see the basis of McLuhan thought, the impact on the individual of the technology of the media. When most individuals receive a message they are aware of the content, and the content only. Few recognize how important it is to be aware of how something is said. The attitudes conveyed throughout the message, the meanings that lie beneath the surface, are more important as they shape how the actual content is perceived. These two schools of thought made up the whole of popular thinking. At least, that is the way it was until McLuhan. With one sentence McLuhan introduced a whole new point of view. That sentence was: ?The medium is the message?. McLuhan contended that what was truly important was the technology that was used, not the content or the way that the content was presented."
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Marshall McLuhan, 2008.
Explores the ideas of Marshall McLuhan about communications.
1,595 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper explains that Marshall McLuhan's basic message is that how one communicates is as important, if not more important, as what is being communicated. The paper looks at McLuhan's belief that the most effective means of persuasion shifts with each differing epoch according to the prevailing technology. The paper also points out that the vast communication changes, which the Internet has brought about in a relatively short time, shows how powerful such technological changes can be.
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"McLuhan's statement about the medium shows that we are shaped by the technologies we use and by the way, those technologies extend our perceptions outside the body. Abram follows Husserl and Merleau-Ponty and accepts the notion that perception is participation. If this idea is extended to consciousness as such, it could lead to the conception of the all encompassing interconnected consciousness, which McLuhan also discusses as he finds that our technologies link us in unforeseen ways."
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Spatial Disorientation in Aviation, 2005.
An analysis of the psychological and medical aspects of spatial disorientation in aviation.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 6 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper looks at how the medical approach to understanding vestibular systems is an important aspect of spatial disorientation in modern flight. The lack of navigational instruments for some fliers portends a variety of problems that can create psychological, neurological and biological problems when seeking the horizon line in flight. By examining these various factors in relation to the medical aspects of spatial disorientation, it shows how the issue of neurological function becomes a central issue in understanding how various illusions can arise in the mind of the pilot.
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"The premise of this medical study will be to analyze the various problems with spatial disorientation that occurs due to aeronautical applications in flight. The problem of vestibular system function when pilots cannot use flight instruments occurs through a complex set of inner ear functions. By examining how spatial disorientation produces a biological reaction to space relationships, one can realize the psychological affect this has on pilots. By examining both a medical and psychological reaction to spatial disorientation, a dualistic approach to this problem can be utilized to show interrelationships between the body and mind. The human body has certain functions that allow a human being to understand his or her relationship between space and objective points with the horizon line. "
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Gender Differences In Spatial Abilities, 2002.
This study tested 12 rats' spatial ability in the Morris water maze to check for gender difference.
2,847 words (approx. 11.4 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 84.95
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The paper is presented in the form of an experiment which was designed to test the spatial ability of six male and six female rats using the Morris water maze, in order to see if a gender difference was present. The paper describes the experiment - it shows that surrounding the submerged platform were four geometric cues and each rat ran three training and six testing trials on the first day, then six testing trials on the second day. Results showed that there was no significant difference in gender spatial ability. The paper attributed this finding to the fact that many variables were not controlled.
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"Since its creation by Richard G. M. Morris, the Morris water maze (MWM) has helped researchers understand the spatial ability of rats. Many scientific experiments done using animals are aimed to predict the outcome of human beings when presented with the same situation. The studies done using the MWM were meant to reflect on the spatial ability of humans as well as of other species. These studies wanted to answer the basic question of ?how does an organism reach its goal object if they cannot see it?? Rats were used in these experiments for many practical reasons. Rats are easy to handle and care for. Rats have a shorter lifespan than humans, for example, do. They will reach ?adolescence? after six months while humans typically reach adolescence after twelve years. The following literature tests different groups of rats placed in different situations, the difference between male and female rats? spatial ability, the difference between male and female rats with age as an important factor, and the difference between male and female rats after a brain impairment."
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Modality-Specific Encoding of Spatial Information, 2006.
A review of the article "Viewing a Map versus Reading as Description of a Map: Modality-Specific Encoding of Spatial Information" by Michael Tlauka, Hannah Keage and C. Richard Clark.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper reviews the article "Viewing a Map versus Reading as Description of a Map: Modality-Specific Encoding of Spatial Information" written by Tlauka, Keage and Clark. According to the paper, the article reports results of a study that was conducted in order to determine if neural activity within the human brain, that had accompanied processing of previously-learned information, about positions and locations of various places on a map, was measurably influenced by the particular modality in which spatial parameters of the maps themselves had been learned originally.
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"In the learning phase, the study participants either looked at a map, or read a written description of a map. Next, study participants' comparative abilities to use the spatial knowledge they had learned earlier, either visuospatially [sic] or verbally, was measured, by having each of the participants then perform a spatial orientation task, during which EEG activity was measured. According to the authors, brain activity relative to processing spatial information was inferred from amplitude, latency, and topography of several spatiotemporal parts of the ERP. The authors found that overall performance was unaffected by previous map-learning modality (visuospatial [sic] or verbal), but that the neural activity underlying processing of stimuli was in fact influenced by previous map-learning modality (e.g., visuospatial [sic] or verbal). Based on this result, the authors concluded that conflicting results derived from the behavioral and Neurophysiological measures suggest that adopting particular orientations in imagined space can involve different patterns of brain activation."
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Marshal McLuhan, 2002.
Examines the effect of McLuhan's ideas on Canada's Asian heritage and popular culture
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This paper examines the theories of Marshal McLuhan. Its content is focused on Asian influences on Canadian culture and the manner in which they reflect and illuminate McLuhan's theories.
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Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, 2002.
A look at the ongoing validity of the theories of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan.
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This paper focuses on the theories of Innis and McLuhan and how they remain valid with regard to the likely impact of current mass media upon culture and consciousness in Canada. The work of both men, in their emphasis on the past and on some of the universals of the human condition, encourage a view of contemporary reality in a linear or even cyclical context that may be lost, in effect, when drawing too firm a mental line between the Modern and the post-Modern.
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Classical Music and Spatial Tasks, 2005.
A methodological critique of an experiment analyzing the relationship between classical music exposure and an improvement in spatial tasks.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This essay critiques an experiment testing the use of classical music to improve the test scores of a number of spatial tasks. The paper describes the methodology of the experiment and discusses the findings, particularly that exposure to complexly-structured classical music leads to an improvement in abstract reasoning ability.
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"In the experiment studying music and spatial task performance, the purpose was to "demonstrate the correlation between music cognition and cognitions pertaining to abstract operations such as mathematical or spatial reasoning." The experimenter's findings were that: exposure to complexly-structured classical music leads to an improvement in abstract reasoning ability. According to the statistics, this hypothesis seems correct, but there are a number of aspects of the study which are in need of improvement. One weak area of the study is length of time the music was played for. In the study, the students listened to ten minutes of classical music, ten minutes of a relaxation tape, and ten minutes of silence, prior to performing standard IQ spatial reasoning tasks."
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Spatial Order in Poems and Plays, 2002.
Discusses the tone, diction, point of view, and the theme of spatial order seen in a poem by Wallace Stevens and in a play by Shakespeare.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper discusses the theme of spatial order in Wallace Stevens' poem "Anecdote of the Jar" and in lines 87-115 in Act I Scene 3 of William Shakespeare's play "Troilus and Cressida." Tone, diction, and point of view are examined as well.
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McLuhan: "The Medium is the Message", 2002.
This paper examines Marshall McLuhan's "The Medium is the Message".
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It begins with a brief synopsis of this article. Then it applies this theoretical paradigm to diverse issues in mass communications study. This approach demonstrates the continuing vitality of McLuhan's theoretical musings.
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Ong and McLuhan, 2004.
This paper discusses Marshall McLuhan's book "Understanding Media: The Extension of Man."
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The paper examines Marshall McLuhan's book "Understanding Media: The Extension of Man," and his concept of "The medium is the message" in terms of Ong's theories of orality and oral cultures.
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"Ong's theories of orality make the claim that since oral cultures have no fixed texts, they organize and transmit information in unique ways and the basis or oral thought is memory. Orality relies on the oral visual world. Ong believed that Words come into being through time and exist only so long as they are going out of existence; when I pronounce "reflect," by the time I get to the flect, the re is gone and necessarily and irretrievably gone."
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The Spatial Music of Henry Brant, 2005.
A description and analysis of Henry Brant's spatial music.
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This paper addresses the style and aesthetics of Henry Brant's spatial music, with particular attention given to his Pulitzer Prize-winning piece, "Ice Field".
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"Henry Brant, America's pioneer explorer and practitioner of acoustic spatial music, was born in Montreal in 1913 of American parents and began to compose at the age of eight. After studying traditional composition for a number of years Brant desired to a write a kind of music that would reflect his own inner experience of life; a life he observed to be full of complexities. Brant's works are concerned with the multiplicities of everyday reality, which in the 20th century and beyond, is characterized by clashes of colliding unrelated events all competing for attention (Grove, 2005). In an October 4, 2002 interview with New Music Box, a Web Magazine from the American Music Center, Henry Brant describes his notion of music existing in space as well as time: It has never seemed to me that life is a simple matter, and I have always felt that music can reflect everyday existence, with its many complicated events both internal and external. A mundane episode in everyday life is not a one-dimensional event. People pass one another unaware of each other's needs and fears. For me, spatial amalgams of highly contrasted musical events, freely associated yet controlled, present opportunities for representing in the concert hall, musical equivalents of the incessant bombardment of social and environmental catastrophes which bedevil daily existence (Oteri, 12). For Brant, single-style music has never evoked the "new stresses, layered insanities, and multi-directional assaults" of contemporary life on the spirit (Grove, 2005). In ordinary life there are numerous things happening both known and unknown at any given time. Why should music cut itself off from the experience of the most ordinary kind of life? These are the types of questions Brant has been asking himself the last 50 or so years."
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McLuhan on Media, 2002.
This paper discusses the book "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man" by Marshall McLuhan.
1,219 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper looks at the four major concepts presented by McLuhan-- the idea that the medium is the message, the nature of different messages, different social orders that are linked to their system of communication and how the development of a new technology will lead to a change in each society. The paper analyzes these theories and concludes that technology has a great effect on the social order.
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"The idea that the medium is the message is offered first. McLuhan says that it is characteristic of all media that "the 'content' of any medium is always another medium" (8), meaning that the content of writing is speech, the content of the written word is print, and so on. Media are defined as extensions of man, allowing human senses to reach beyond their normal range. McLuhan finds that "the formative power in the media are the media themselves" (21), and because of this, he finds that technological media are staples or natural resources. Certain staples become for a society a social bond."
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