What is a media ecologists take on the internet?
Every new medium means a new culture. You can’t say it’s good or bad unless you’re a diehard fixed on preserving one (medium). But from an ecologist’s standpoint, if you introduce a medium, that means a new culture. TV for example took the family circle and broke it in half into a family semicircle. Now, everybody has a TV in their pocket or on their wrist. How did your father influence you? Well, hell, man, he’s my father. I planned on being an engineer or a pilot. I wound up in English literature and working in the area of media and culture. My father made quite a name for himself as a student of media. I’d recommend “The Medium is the Massage” and “Understanding Media.” I’d expect people see him in me, but I don’t know. What do you think of reality TV? Reality TV means you are the show. They don’t show you the whole apparatus. You don’t see any crew members, cameramen, microphone operators. It takes about three or four hours of reading to counterbalance one hour of TV. Literacy is n
