Talk:Media ecology

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Contents 1 Media Ecosystem 2 Changing Uses 3 reference style is off 4 Merge 5 replaced Science stub with Philo stub

[edit] Media Ecosystem

This section of media ecosystem has little, if anything, to do with the Media Ecology discipline as defined by the Media Ecology Association and the heritage of Neil Postman at NYU. Perhaps it should have its own category, instead.

[edit] Changing Uses

I don't see how this is necessarily a "changing use" of the phrase. How "media industry developments affect the public" seems to be an example of a media ecological perspective, not a shift in its usage. Also, do you have specific examples of this usage, and can you provide a citation for the Postman quote? --mtz206 13:12, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] reference style is off

There's a numbered system we can use for all the references to be at the bottom and the individual in text cites to direct to them. Also, more facts need to be cited in order for the article to be expanded. Lotusduck 23:37, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

Someone put a merge tag on the article suggested it be merged with media studies. Not sure if that editor is planning to actually start a discussion on the topic, but I oppose such a merger as this field (within media studies) deserves its own article for proper explication of its unique intellectual history, approach, and contributions to the study of media & culture. --ZimZalaBim (talk) 23:40, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

if there is no positive argument from the suggester, then the merge tag should be removed as merge-spam.--Buridan 23:48, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

I have removed the merge tag with no positive suggestion and no clear reason why this discipline should be merged with the broader MediaStudies--Lakeshark 04:14, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] replaced Science stub with Philo stub

Media ecology is only barely, if at all, an empirical science. A philosophic approach to the study of media would be a much better way of describing it.PaulLev 21:23, 3 October 2006 (UTC)