changelog @ tengrrl.com: CW2006 Presenation: Lakoff DVD

I've watched the companion DVD to the Elephant book, How Democrats and Progressives Can Win: Solutions from George Lakoff, several times this evening—for lazy reasons, as it seemed much easier than slogging all the way through the book and I needed to feel like I was accomplishing something. The video is really to short to be very helpful. It's as if Lakoff decided to read the outline to us. Very little explanation. I was hoping for more, especially for what I paid for it. Oh well.

Still much to figure out, and I've pulled a number of books off of the shelf. At some point, I acquired The Power of Metaphor in the Age of Electronic Media by Raymond Gozzi, Jr., and apparently I need to skim through it. Ir worries me too that I don't know how Media Ecology fits into my A/B scheme. I keep running into it,and it feels as if it's just beyond what I'm doing. But it troubles me that it keeps coming up. How can I possibly work anything else into this craziness?

Comments:

Hmmm... my first reaction is to say that media ecology doesn't fit into either A or B because media ecology is what you are doing. But if you need to classify it, I'd put it under A. Though -- and this is probably just muddying the waters too much -- while thinking about where media ecology fits, I'm struck by the notion that the A/B classification is itself is information architecture (but then, I'd argue that information architecture falls under the scope of media ecology).

# posted by John : 10:00 PM

Oh, I meant to tell you that if you want some quick definitionso of media ecology, take a look at the Media Ecology Association's What is Media Ecology? page (while I particuarly like Strate's definition, I think you'll probably find Nystrom and Postman's definitions more helpful) and the Wikipedia entry.

# posted by John : 10:04 PM

hmm. what i'm trying to do is figure out how the underlying metaphors frame the ways of seeing. The columns are really just collections of things that have metaphors that align I think. Then again, I'm probably totally lost.

# posted by tengrrl : 11:49 PM

Ah. Then wouldn't media ecology aling with info ecology and the rest of that grouping?

# posted by John : 12:42 PM

what a moron i am. yes, of course. i hate theory. it just confuses me.

# posted by tengrrl : 1:08 PM

Wednesday, April 26, 2006